From: Grant Hutchinson (grant_at_splorp.com)
Date: Sat Mar 20 2004 - 10:21:43 PST
In a previous message, Eric Engle typed vigorously:
>Argh! The plural of stylus is styli! It is a Latin word. Though Russian
>(presumably other slavic languages as well) also uses "i" for plurals -
>so this form of the plural is not completely archaic.
On a related rant:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103427456100001
g.
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