[Ads-l] teeming metropolies

[Laurence Horn]

Aha. And oops—missed Dan’s post.  So not faux then?  I stand corrected, and those responsible for the 20 hits don’t.  I had never actually encountered “metropoles” as a plural, and assumed the worst.  In reparation, I’ll go eat some grilled octopodes.  Of course the weirdest part of “metropoles” is that it looks like it represents a trisyllabic rather than tetrasyllabic word, given the temptation to latch onto those -poles.  

LH

P.S.  Actually it looks like the Greek plural would be “metropoleis” rather than “metropoles”, but close enough for (municipal) government work.

> On Mar 27, 2018, at 5:21 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> You mean, "teeming metropoles", which I believe to be correct: is, plural
> -es.
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> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018, 5:02 PM Clai Rice <cxr1086 at louisiana.edu> wrote:
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>> Heard on NPR today: "teeming metropolies",  rhymes with "monopolies".
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>> You can hear this at the NPR website for Here & Now, March 27, first hour,
>> at 25:51. The discussion topic is Uber in Asia.
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>> https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510051/here-x26-now
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>> The speaker is Roben Farzad, an Iranian American who moved to the US at
>> age 2. He is an experienced broadcaster, currently the host of Full
>> Disclosure on NPR1.
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