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*sigh* Still think it should've won an award for the fastest hijack of all time...
Here's a tricky one, plural of tyre?
Tyrii?
Hmmm...
*wanders off to make some tea*
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I've been on a pluralisation crusade for a while now. It started off with deciding that the plural of Walrus shouldn't be Walruses. It should be Walri instead, it's a much better word.
I then moved on to deciding that if you have more than one Stegasaurus you have some Stegasauri, and if Jesus was cloned, you'd have lots of Jesii (which you could then use as structural supports for building on water, since they can walk on it and everything)
One of the best I've heard so far is from Flynt - working out that Doofus becomes Doofii.
I'm currently undecided about the word 'Bus'. I'm thinking it should turn into 'Bi' if there are more than one. I think the saving in time if 'Bi' was used instead of 'Buses' would be pretty significant given how often people moan about waiting for ages before two turn up at once
But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
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or maybe that's just the latin...
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how about the plural of JEDI?
any takers?
"Any takii?"
*tut tut*
Plural of Jedi, is posslby technically Jedi Knightii - but maybe Jediii
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Yeah, it's pluralised the same way as scampi - you get scampiii
or possibly scampii, depending on how fond of the letter i you are.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
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"physical planii" surely ?
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Oh, and Mr. Burner of Toast, surely it's "Durbii"?
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or idioii perhaps.......
injurii
idiosyncrasii
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It was agreed that Durbs was in fact singular and lived in fear of clonii of himself being made and that Mollii was quite correct as at last count there are three of me. (three? one girly, one mole and a cat)
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Or 2 of the big smelly things that live in Africa?
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No reason - it's just fun to say, plus frees up plural of Hippo
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Now, what is to be done about wordii with atypical pluralii? (plurii? Is there a rule about when we simply replace an "s" with "ii" and when the "ii" replaces part of the root word?) For example, what is to be done about the plural of "mouse?" or "foot?" or worse yet, "sheep"?
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to answer your question, the rulii are based on arbritary desiciii
Love is the law.
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Wordii like sheep and poi are exempt (i.e. where plurii are same as singulii)
Wordii like goatii, trii (plural of tree), halibutii and marshmellii aren't
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-Mike )'(
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Sheesh.
-Mike )'(
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I'm dyslexic and its hard enough for me in english let alone in Durbs mad plural world!!!
*stamps feet and has a tantrum any 2 year old would be proud of*
hmmmmm or should that be stampii?
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