[Spambayes] The plural of corpus

[David LeBlanc]

And naturally, the plural of mongoose is mongeese ;)

David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: spambayes-bounces@python.org
> [mailto:spambayes-bounces@python.org]On Behalf Of Tim Peters
> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 14:55
> To: Guido van Rossum; spambayes@python.org
> Subject: RE: [Spambayes] The plural of corpus
> 
> 
> >> corpus...corpusai...corpai...corpus (I really don't know either),
> 
> [Guido]
> > For future reference, the plural of corpus is corpora, according to my
> > dictionary. :-)
> 
> Your dictionary is correct.  Note too that the plural of walrus 
> is walrora,
> and the plural of circus is circora, and the singular of flora is flus.
> English is wonderfully consistent, unlike some Dutch languages we 
> could name
> <wink>.
> 
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