Now say you want to pluralize it. "Foci", right?
Except my one friend argues that since it's a proper noun, you're supposed to treat it like it's not a special case.."Focuses"
WHO IS RIGHT!?
No, Really. Bite me.
Unless it's well known (fungi, octopi, etc), always use the regular plural.
Nerd.
Especially Walrii.
Walrus, Virus, Cactuc, Octopus.
WALRII
Why does it do that? O_o
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Seurenna stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
So I was wrong!Why does it do that? O_o
Because it's the natural law, dork.
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So quoth Humble Parcelan:
...dork.
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A sleep deprived Humble Parcelan stammered:
Nerd.
Dork-nerd!
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Seurenna said this about your mom:
Dork-nerd!
You won't send me any PMs, so I'm gonna treat you less-than-swell.
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JooJooFlop had this to say about John Romero:
What happened to your "naked cartoon girl being groped by lots of shadowy hands" sigpic?
It went to the land where old sigpics go
code:
Plurals of NamesThe plurals of proper nouns (names) are formed by adding -s or -es. The
spelling of the name itself must be preserved, so the guideline for changing
-y preceded by a consonant to -ies does not apply.Charleses Jerrys
Georges Lees
Harrys Marys
Jameses
Taken from The New York Public Library Writer's Guide To Style And Usage, Page 397. [ 12-05-2002: Message edited by: Vorbo Goatboy ]
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And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Vorbo Goatboy was all like:
Taken from The New York Public Library Writer's Guide To Style And Usage, Page 397.
oooooohhh.....
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Humble Parcelan painfully thought these words up:
You won't send me any PMs, so I'm gonna treat you less-than-swell.
I sent you a pm and i was treated less then swell 
</nerd>
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Nobody really understood why Humble Parcelan wrote:
octopi
Octopodes. 
[EDIT] Nevermind, I'm a moron. And an attention whore. [ 12-06-2002: Message edited by: Sentow ]
But mostly a moron.
quote:You expected different? If so, then you obviously haven't sent him enough PM's.
Death of Rats's account was hax0red to write:
I sent you a pm and i was treated less then swell
He was asking for PMs for a reason, you know 
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Humble Parcelan impressed everyone with:
Focuses.Unless it's well known (fungi, octopi, etc), always use the regular plural.
Nerd.
Hello Mr. High&Mighty,
you can use foci and you can use focuses.
You don't know everything. Alas, neither do I.
Yours truly,
Tarquinn
