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Re: Geek plurals

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Friday, March 22, 2002, 19:23
From: "William Annis" <annis@...>

|         Another friend of mine, also a computer geek, has taken to the
| Hebrew masculine plural.  Now, for at least the two of us, you have
| "one avocado, two avocadim" with the latter often rendered
| "avokhadim."

Avocado itself -- actually Avcad(un) -- is an Arabic broken plural, with the
singular being Vacd(un).

~Danny~