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mollykins | 20:17 Fri 04th Mar 2011 | Jobs & Education
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What is the plural of syllabus? Syllabuses or syllabi?
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Prudie- they don't, they say FORMULAS (and of course they usually write it as FORMULA'S because they almost always add a superfluous apostrophe to any plural).
I'm not sure what they think the plural of AXIS is, though. Maybe Axises.
20:46 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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One of my current teachers is young though although he's 26 but wears tweed?!?! and today told us how he used to be in a heavy metal band which conjured a wierd imagine in my head! he spells it formulas but almost all of my other teachers that i can remember spell it formulae.
20:47 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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oh gawd factor . . . I haven't done english since about April . . .
20:49 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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Formulas from a teacher is poor show IMO
Molly does he have food deposits on his tie?
20:50 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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Syllabussii
20:51 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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No prudie, but he does have a bit of a beard and he lsitens to a weird range of music include 80s/90s brit pop and japanese instrumental stuff!
20:53 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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... and that's wrong?
20:55 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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80s/90s Brit pop isn't exactly weird
20:56 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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the range is weird; brit pop, isntrumental japanese stuff, a bit of heavy metal and god knows what else.
20:58 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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Thanks Bueno. Will enjoy reading through that when I have the time.
21:07 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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oh go on then ....OCTOPODES
21:17 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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According to Wikipedia:
"Fowler's Modern English Usage states that "the only acceptable plural in English is octopuses," and that octopi is misconceived and octopodes pedantic."
21:21 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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octopuses, syllabuses and axes
21:22 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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Yes, I prefer SYLLABUSES to SYLLABI as the word syllabus is Greek (rather than Latin)
21:26 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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Octopi is obviously wrong because octopus is a word derived from Greek, not Latin...

What about cherubs, seraphs and kibbutzes? Cherubim and seraphim are correct, and sound correct too because "cherubim and seraphim" is a well-known religious phrase, but kibbutzim...?
21:33 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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Quite, teach.
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21:39 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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B**ger the plurals, Mollykins used "gotten"!
21:39 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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http://www-personal.u...awler/aue/gotten.html
21:41 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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Yes, she does use gotten- but so did Shakespeare. . The phrase "ill-gotten gains" is often used and I'm not aware anyone disapproves of it.
21:42 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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Dang, i thought I had gotten away with it! :P
22:03 Fri 04th Mar 2011

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