"corpii" as plural of "corpus"

[Mark Mandel]

"sylabii" gets only 1,780. The 72k is for "syllabii". ("There's a double
letter in there somewhere..." ... especially tough with l, I, and i.

m a m

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:

> 72k rgh for sylabii.  I tried to convince colleagues the plural should
> be "syllabontes," with little success.  I guess with a faux-Greek loan
> we can do what we want.
>

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