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

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Monday, February 5, 2001, 2:44
> Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 17:45:35 -0800 > From: Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...>
> In a chatroom i visit, people insist on pluralizing penis as penii. even > though i tell them that "penises" is the plural!
The Latin plural is penes. But even medical professionals seldom find occasion to use that. (Pt pres w 2 infl penes... not too likely). Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)