And Jesus Said Unto Paul of Ryan … “Pious Paul interjected, ‘For the Samaritan’s work is unsustainable and sends the wrong message. It teaches travelers to take dangerous roads, knowing that others will rescue them from self-destructive behaviors.”
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The Truest, Meanest Jokes that Bombed at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
The absurd amount of entitlements that go to rich people and Why cutting rich people’s taxes doesn’t create jobs
Jimmy Kimmel’s Radically Simple ‘Jimmy Kimmel Test’
Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
Jodi Picoult: Are You Sure You’re Not Racist?
Someone wants to know why there was a Civil War and could Andrew Jackson have stopped it?
George Will: This president does not know what it is to know
Much Ado About Religious Liberty
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Vlogbrothers: Can You Trust Mainstream Media? and The Life Changing Magic of Thumbs Up
Younger Men, Older Women: A Pairing Becomes More Common
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There Is a Fake IDGod, and He Lives in China
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David Brickman review: Neil deGrasse Tyson at Proctors
Man forced to surrender his ‘offensive’ Star Trek license plate
Tony nominations (yes, I watch)
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Good luck (shhh!) and spam wedding
All of a sudden or all of the sudden
Please type your preferred plurals in the comments box: alumnus, apparatus, appendix, aquarium, cactus, crisis, criterion, focus, thesis, forum, fungus, hippopotamus, index, nucleus, octopus, phenomenon, referendum, radius, stadium, syllabus, prospectus, ellipsis, museum, factotum, status
Music
LISTEN TODAY! Bette Midler stars as Dolly Levi in the Tony Award-nominated revival of Hello, Dolly, before album is released May 12.
Saxa of the (English) Beat, R.I.P.
Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans, a Star Wars/Beatles fan tribute
Top 10 Songs About Elvis Presley, not including Elvis Presley Boulevard – Billy Joel, the only Joel single I own (B-side to Allentown)
Chuck Miller: Wake up, you sleeping lion!
Someday My Prince Will Come – Dave Brubeck Quartet
Photos show the world’s biggest rock stars as tourists in 1970s Japan
Forbes: How The Music Industry Is Putting Itself Out Of Business
The Eagles Sue an Actual Hotel California
“Please type your preferred plurals in the comments box: alumnus, apparatus, appendix, aquarium, cactus, crisis, criterion, focus, thesis, forum, fungus, hippopotamus, index, nucleus, octopus, phenomenon, referendum, radius, stadium, syllabus, prospectus, ellipsis, museum, factotum, status”
Okay, here goes, and remember, consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds:
“Alumni, apparatuses, appendices, aquaria, cacti*, crises, criteria, foci, theses, fora, fungi, hippopotami, indices, nuclei, octopodes, phenomena, referenda, radii, stadiums, syllabi, prospectuses, ellipses, museums, factotums, statuses.”
(*I have had other botanists tell me this should be cactuses.)
I THINK the ones I use more commonly (syllabi, radii) are the ones I strive to be “Latin correct” with, some of the others (like prospectus), I almost never use the plural and so the ‘strictly correct seeming’ one doesn’t seem right.
What IS the “correct” plural of “museum”? I’m now wondering, have I done it wrong all my life?
“Octopi” seems to be more common, albeit less correct. (I suspect this is due to the misconception that any noun ending in -us is Latin, second declension.)
The only technically correct plural I hear less often than “musea” is “penes.”