today's CNN miscellany

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

The plural of "hypothesis" is "hypotheses," which sounds like "hypothesies," and a singular derived from
that latter plural would be "hypothesy" (like "baby/babies").

Gerald Cohen

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Joel S. Berson, Sun 4/22/2012 4:29 PM wrote:

At 4/22/2012 04:56 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> From a CNN anchor:
>
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>"That's one hypothesy." Hypothesis.

Heresy, as applied to some other CNN anchor's belief?  Or, I suppose,
just the singular of "hypothesis" (which ends in -s, of course).

Joel

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