"Status" is originally a Latin noun and in Latin it declines as a u-stem noun. So in Latin, the plural form of "status" is also "status". Paul In a message dated 9/12/2010 3:30:48 P.M. Central Daylight Time, JD at Pianomaker.co.uk writes: At 14:42 -0500 12/9/10, Ron Nossaman wrote: >>Who?! Is that Quechua or Inuit? How do you pronounce it? > >Neither. It's the plural of status (invented just for Joe). Radius < >radii, status < statii. <G> Ah well, for a serial offender like Joe it will do fine, but the murder of a language is a crime even if it is already dead, and let it be known the plural of status would be status if it were ever used. JD -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100912/17766c8e/attachment.htm>
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