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Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 4, 2003, 3:44
Herman Miller scripsit:

> Some musical terms borrowed from Italian optionally have Italian plurals: > tempo / tempi (or tempos). Well, maybe just that one. I'm sure there must > be others, but I can't think of any.
We used to have piani, soli, and even banditti, but all those plurals got ditched a long time ago. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin

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