<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jyavenard@gmail.com" target="_blank">jyavenard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On 21 May 2014 22:15, Steve Hodge <<a href="mailto:stevehodge@gmail.com">stevehodge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Also, the most correct pural of octopus is octopuses, followed by octopodes.<br>
> And the correct plural of virus is viruses, not viri (and certainly not<br>
> virii which is just a word invented by people who don't understand Latin<br>
> plurals).<br>
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</div>Seems I live in the old-age<br>
<a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scenarii" target="_blank">http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scenarii</a><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, I saw that. OTOH, the OED does not recognise it.<br></div><div> </div>
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Though it is still the official plural form of scenario in French<br>
(<a href="http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/scenarii" target="_blank">http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/scenarii</a>)<br>
Yes, modern Italians do spell it with a single i today, that has not<br>
always been the case. Questo delicato istrione non comprendeva la<br>
comedia dell’amore senza gli scenarii.<br>
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can't believe this would get so off-topic.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It such a low volume mailing list we can afford these occasional diversions ;)<br><br></div><div>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div></div></div>