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re: Stupid Question of the Day - Why isn’t walrus spelt walri when ploral?
Posted on 8/25/19 at 8:45 am to theantiquetiger
Posted on 8/25/19 at 8:45 am to theantiquetiger
quote:
platypus is platypi, and octopus is octopi,
False
Platypuses, octopuses
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Posted on 8/25/19 at 8:52 am to theantiquetiger
Wtf is "spelt?"
Posted on 8/25/19 at 11:16 am to RonFNSwanson
quote:
False
Platypuses, octopuses
I believe it can be spelt (lol) either way
Posted on 8/25/19 at 11:23 am to theantiquetiger
Posted on 8/25/19 at 11:33 am to theantiquetiger
Because I am TheWalrus
Posted on 8/25/19 at 11:38 am to TheWalrus
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Because I am TheWalrus
coo coo ka choo
I was just going to post that
Posted on 8/25/19 at 11:45 am to theantiquetiger
quote:
I believe it can be spelt (lol) either way
No, it cannot
As people have already said, these are not latin words.
Posted on 8/25/19 at 11:47 am to TheWalrus
quote:
Because I am TheWalrus
Posted on 8/25/19 at 11:48 am to BengalBlood81
quote:don't cry over spelt milk
But you were ok with spelt?
Posted on 8/25/19 at 3:30 pm to Tiger HouTX
quote:
LOL, why don't you worry about spelling words correctly before worrying about tenses.
I guess you were not replying to me, because I didn’t use that word (plural).
Posted on 8/25/19 at 3:37 pm to MoarKilometers
OP’s spelling is dePLORable
Posted on 8/25/19 at 4:03 pm to theantiquetiger
Same reason that the past tense of spell is spelt
Posted on 8/25/19 at 4:58 pm to Bigfishchoupique
quote:
How about radii for radius and bonii for bonus. We had a Geometry teacher that gave us bonii points if we got all our radii correct.
Radii is correct
Bonii is wrong, -ii is never a suffix in Latin. The double-i occurs when the base ends in i and the suffix begins with i. Bon- is the base and -us is the stem, so "boni" would be the plural of bonus (which is an adjective meaning "good" so "boni" would be interpreted to mean "good things" (masculine)
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