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jammi on May 28, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016)

So how about the plurals of some words ending with "us", like fungus-fungi, but virus-viruses-not-virii and how about dingus-dingii-or-dinguses, doofus-doofii-or-doofuses and so forth?

s3m4j on May 28, 2018 [–]

Bad understanding and appropriation of latin and greek to seem smarter than one really is.

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