Elvises -> Elvi(i)

[Dave Hause]

It would have been, if it had occurred to me.
Dave
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From: "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>


I take it that "periodically" is not meant as a pun, in this context. ;-)

And, of course, there's "[medium,] media" > "mediae / medias."

-Wilson

On 8/6/07, Dave Hause <dwhause at jobe.net> wrote:
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> And I have been periodically railing for several years at a series of
> gynecologists who use "labia majora/minora" as a singular.  A few years
> ago
> I looked at my surgical pathology database and found about fifty instances
> of inappropriate plural, along with three corrct singulars, none used by
> gynecologists.
> Dave Hause, dwhause at jobe.net
> Waynesville, MO
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> From: "Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at NB.NET>
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