At 14:22 6/25/02, Mike Cormier pondered:
Agenda has no "s"... ever. I'm not sure about index, and it's Octopii.
Liberte tu te me de latin..... ;)
"Indices" is the proper plural of "index."
FWIW:
"Musea" is the proper plural of "museum,"
"gymnasia" is the proper plural of "gymnasium," and
"cacti" is the proper plural of "cactus."
The last one, when pluralized using the very improper "cactuses" grates on
my ears as fingernails on a chalk board! My mother was adamant about
properly pluralizing Latin words. If I erred, the resulting correction was
swift, before the sentence was finished, and I was required to repeat it
properly several times. The harshness resulted from her career as an
executive secretary. A few of the executives she worked for could neither
speak nor write well, and she saw how it limited their careers (not to
mention her ire at continuously having to correct their writing).
-- John
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