today's CNN miscellany

[Laurence Horn]

I vote for the spelling "hypothesee", as in "parenthesee", a better-established (if equally phantom) back-formed singular.

LH

On Apr 22, 2012, at 5:56 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:

> The plural of "hypothesis" is "hypotheses," which sounds like "hypothesies," and a singular derived from
> that latter plural would be "hypothesy" (like "baby/babies").
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> Gerald Cohen
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> Joel S. Berson, Sun 4/22/2012 4:29 PM wrote:
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> At 4/22/2012 04:56 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>> From a CNN anchor:
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> <snip>
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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).
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> Joel
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