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
I wonder why no one ever worries about Saxon endings, cases, or word
order in a language that is more Germanic than Latin?
--
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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