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Ruth Gregory Posts: 8072 Joined: 25th Jul 2007 Location: USA | Posted at 04:46 on 17th July 2008 On 16th July 2008 23:05, Milla Engel wrote:
 Picture by Steve Willimott
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L Posts: 5656 Joined: 10th Jun 2004 Location: UK | Posted at 07:02 on 17th July 2008 If the plural or cactus is cacti, is the plural of crocus , croci?  lovely pic Ruth. |
| Wolf Posts: 3423 Joined: 9th Jul 2008 Location: Australia | Posted at 07:36 on 17th July 2008 Something to ponder ? Although it is often supposed that octopi is the 'correct' plural of octopus, and it has been in use for longer than the usual Anglicized plural octopuses, it in fact originates as an error. Octopus is not a simple Latin word of the second declension, but a Latinized form of the Greek word oktopous, and its 'correct' plural would logically be octopodes. Other words ending in -us show a very varied pattern. Like octopi, the plural hippopotami is now generally taken to be either funny or absurdly pedantic, and the usual plural is hippopotamuses. Common usage appears to indicate a slight preference for termini rather than terminuses, but syllabuses rather than syllabi. Other usual forms include cacti and gladioli, and our files at the dictionary department show scarcely any examples of nucleuses or funguses. (Omnibi is simply a joke, and quite ungrammatical in Latin!) Written by a child in a school essay :- Octopusses live in the ocean and have eight testicles!
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Paul Hilton Posts: 2605 Joined: 21st Nov 2004 Location: UK | Posted at 07:46 on 17th July 2008 So, an omnibi isn't an old term for a fleet of buses then, after all? |
Andy Edwards Posts: 1900 Joined: 14th Mar 2008 Location: UK | Posted at 22:46 on 17th July 2008 Thanks Ruth, you're too kind. I'm managing to get down to the wetlands early these days, before my 'trips of the day'. The weather has been pretty poor lately, so I haven't taken many pictures on my travels. I think that's why I'm taking a few of the insects etc. at the wetlands. I sneaked up on the kingfisher yesterday morning and he flew just before I could focus and click. I'll be back there in the morning for about sixish, hopefully I'll get a picture this time!! |
| Ruth Gregory Posts: 8072 Joined: 25th Jul 2007 Location: USA | Posted at 04:26 on 18th July 2008 Keep up the good work, mate. I don't know how you do it, with your busy schedule and all. |
| L Posts: 5656 Joined: 10th Jun 2004 Location: UK | Posted at 08:07 on 18th July 2008 On 17th July 2008 22:46, Andy Edwards wrote:
WOW Andy, I don't know how you do it, hope you get that Kingfisher photo! It's dull again here today, not exactly the weather for taking nice photo's  but i'm still living in hopes that summer will eventually get here lol (not sure what year though!) |
| Wolf Posts: 3423 Joined: 9th Jul 2008 Location: Australia | Posted at 11:55 on 18th July 2008 What's wrong with the weather lately over there Lyn ? My sister is in Wakefield Yorkshire, and says that she is going to send me a photo of herself shopping in bikini and wellies. Looking forward to that, if it happens, maybe I should post it on POE.! |
Peter Evans Posts: 3863 Joined: 20th Aug 2006 Location: UK | Posted at 12:43 on 18th July 2008 Yes, post it. Not that I like looking at women in bikini's you understand. He he he. |
| Wolf Posts: 3423 Joined: 9th Jul 2008 Location: Australia | Posted at 13:16 on 18th July 2008 I understand completely Peter.......... you old devil lol:) |
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