Re: Adopting a plural

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 10:21:04 +0200, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 21:54:40 +0200, Philip Newton
> <philip.newton@...> wrote:
>> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 19:48:46 +0100, Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
>> > But 'agendae' - ach y fi! A plural of a plural! How long before
>> > we meet "datae"?
>>
>> Or "omnibi"?
>
> Come to think of it, the word "Stati" is also moderately common (in my
> limited experience) in Germany for the plural of "Status" - presumably
> on the basis that "status" looks like a second-declension masculine
> Latin noun.
I've shuddered to hear "syllabi" as a _singular_ before.


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