Re: OT strummin' on the old banjo

In a message dated 9/8/2007 5:58:57 PM Central Daylight Time,
laokou@COMCAST.NET writes:


> From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
>
> > But I still wonder about words that end with something other than c or
> > g followed by an -io. :)
>
>
> principio, principii; inizio, inizii...
>
> Kou
>
I did a google search for the plurals, and got these results:
i principi         288,000
i principi *      227,000
i principii        118,000

gli inizi             199,000
gli inizi *            35,700
gli inizii               1,400

I don't know whether the count for "i principii" was included in the count
for "in principi" or not.  That's why I did the asterisk search.
For these two words, at least, the plural with one 'i' seems more common.

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