"corpii" as plural of "corpus"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 63+k for octopii. Octopi was bad enough...
> even 1260 raw hippopatumii... http://bit.ly/aiUoLd
> 31k for fungii--including some that certainly should know better
> http://bit.ly/c8fFiD  http://bit.ly/bCE5bg

And don't forget about "octopusi" and "hippopotamusi".

Brett Reynolds blogged last year about "thesaurusi":

http://english-jack.blogspot.com/2009/02/thesaurusi-or-how-descriptivist-can-you.html

(Quite a lot of "thesaurii" out there too.)


--Ben Zimmer

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