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Proper plurals?

Asked by kfingerman (1012points) December 12th, 2008

Do you use them? Like, for latin or greek words in english. Alumnus/alumna/alumni/alumnae. What about iris/irides, octopus/octopi/octopodes. Where’s the line between ignorant and pedantic?

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