Re: Grammar question

["Downing, David" <david -dot- downing -at- fiserv -dot- com>]

From: Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
Subject: Re: Grammar question

Such words when incorrectly used as nouns provide mirth to Latinate 
scholars attempting to derive plurals: One Xerox, two Xeroces? One 
Spandex, two Spandeces? Spandexices? Xeroxicieses? "Make a Xerox of 
this. Then make five more."

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I once raised the question of what the proper plural would be for "Stradivarius."  Would it be " Stradivarii"? The person I was talking to said that, since nobody could afford to own more than one, the question was moot.

David Downing
Senior Technical Writer
Credit Union Solutions
Fiserv
 
 

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