"corpii" as plural of "corpus"

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:44 PM -0500 3/9/10, James Harbeck wrote:
>Yet another manifestation of the (it seems to me) rather common
>belief that the plural of any -us is an -ii (not an -i, as it would
>often be; it seems that the more marked -ii, as in radii, has stuck
>in many people's heads as more right).

Sad but no doubt true, which means it must be pronounced
"corpy-eye"--which I have to admit would appropriately creepy!

LH

>  I've run across the -ii quite
>a few times, though I've never noted corpii before (korpi, yes, which
>is Finnish for "forest", but not corpii).
>
>James Harbeck.
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