plural collective nouns

[Curtis Clark]

At 09:05 AM 10/29/98 -0600, Thomas G. Lammers wrote:
>I respectfully disagree.  The word "Fagaceae" is a plural noun in
English,
>just as octopi,

Octopus is from Greek (octo+pous), so the correct Latinized plural is
octopodes. "Octopuses" is a more correct plural than "octopi" (but who's
counting? :-).


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