Re: There's no such word as `virii'

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 23:36:02 MDT

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    > (Damien Broderick <damienb@unimelb.edu.au>):
    > At 09:42 AM 5/22/03 -0700, Charles Hixson wrote:
    >
    > >I admit myself to using plurals like stewardi (or possibly
    > >stewardae), and socksen (that is actually English+Norse, not Latin,
    > >though).
    >
    > Sounds like Anglo-Socksen to me.

    For anyone else out there who is a language geek as well as a
    techno-geek, the definitive works to have in one's collection are
    those of Richard Lederer, including "Anguished English" and "Crazy
    English", the latter of which includes a chapter making fun of
    irregular plurals called "Foxen in the Henhice". 

    -- 
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
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