Fake Latin plural . . .

[Chris F. Waigl]

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 10:41 -0400, Charles Doyle wrote:
> Yesterday on the local NPR station I heard a speaker
> say "various bodily orifi" /-faI/.

I had to make an effort the other day to remain silent when someone came
up with "linii" (context: installing two different flavours of them side
by side). But if you're collecting those...

Chris Waigl
who also regularly objects to "virii"

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