Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 4, 2003, 7:27 |
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John Cowan wrote:
>Herman Miller scripsit:
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>>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.
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>We used to have piani, soli, and even banditti, but all those plurals
>got ditched a long time ago.
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graffiti, though it's a special case, having ditched it's singular.
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Tristan <kesuari@...>
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