Re: Adopting a plural

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 07:59:34 -0600, Muke Tever <hotblack@...> wrote:

>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.
I've always thought "syllabi" should be the plural of *syllabub*!

BTW I got a message "from" your address, 73KB including attachment. I hope
it wasn't something you actually sent, since I deleted it without opening.

IKP

>
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