[Ads-l] teeming metropolies

[Dan Goncharoff]

The word came down from Greek through Latin, so both influences are
possible.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018, 8:44 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > You mean, "teeming metropoles", which I believe to be correct: is, plural
> > -es.
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 27, 2018, 5:02 PM Clai Rice <cxr1086 at louisiana.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> Heard on NPR today: "teeming metropolies",  rhymes with "monopolies".
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510051/here-x26-now
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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