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Re: CHAT: Worse Greek 102 (was: Bad Latin 101)

From:Matt Pearson <pearson@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 6, 2001, 0:48
Roger Mills wrote:

> More odd plurals: stewardi (esp. M/F airline ___, "coffee, tea or me?"), > waitri [wejytraj] PC plural of waiter/waitress. > And a friend of mine coined, or passed along, "wood wose" ( as in "the > native wood wose wild") for what the gay world now calls a twink. The > plural was "woodwi" [wUdwij].
I don't get the "wood wose" reference. Could you explain it? (I know what a twink is.) Growing up, I had a facetious plural for "toothbrush", namely "toothbreesh". It always seemed reasonable, even though I can't think of any actual irregular plurals on that pattern. Matt.