[Syty] Fwd: Typhoon Problems

[DOlivares]

Re: [Syty] Fwd: Typhoon ProblemsDisney was no grammarian... just a simple purveyor of second-rate cartoonery, especially compared to Bugs Bunny!

Find a better source to cite for this earth-shaking matter....
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Routhier, Ron CIV (TRFKB C400) 
To: 'DOlivares' 
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 1:40 PM
Subject: RE: [Syty] Fwd: Typhoon Problems


Snow White and the seven Dwarves? I don't think so.                 Snow White and the seven Dwarfs.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: DOlivares [mailto:seravilo at netzero.net]
  Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 2:18 PM
  To: Kenneth R Zink II
  Cc: syty at syty.org
  Subject: Re: [Syty] Fwd: Typhoon Problems
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  My original point EXACTLY!

  And "dwarves..." too?

  "Dwarfs" is only used as a VERB!


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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kenneth R Zink II 
  To: DOlivares 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 1:51 AM
  Subject: Re: [Syty] Fwd: Typhoon Problems


  I believe the plural of thief is thieves.

  Kenneth R Zink II
  Hellcat Racing Founder (http://hellcatracing.kicks-ass.net)
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    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: DOlivares 
    To: Jeff Smirz 
    Cc: syty at syty.org 
    Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 9:41 AM
    Subject: Re: [Syty] Fwd: Typhoon Problems


    What about "THIEF..."?  Who says "THIEFS"??  What about "HALF..."?  Naturally, I could go on....

    Dennis Safire

    P.S.    I give diatribe lessons on the cheap, but the homework would probably kill ya! 
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    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Jeff Smirz 
    To: DOlivares 
    Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 7:03 AM
    Subject: Re: [Syty] Fwd: Typhoon Problems


    It's a 'disease' Dennis.

    We've done the same thing with all the words we've taken from Latin:  hippopotamus, locus, focus, radius, etc.  Who says hippoptami, loci, foci or radii anymore?

    And most amazingly, the plural of alumnus is alumni, but in this case us lazy Americans have given up the singular and use the plural to describe both the many and the one.

    (I could go into a Olivarian diatribe on this subject but I could never do you justice!)

    Happy Thanksgiving Dennis,


        Jeff
        Syclone #950 (totaled in '99)
        Syclone #1654 
        Typhoon #1165

                           Indy, IN

    p.s.  OK; just one more:  Campus.  No, I'm not railing about the plural.  This word was coined to describe the grounds and facilities of a college or university but is now used to give the illusion of respectability to virtually anything.  I shudder to think that it won't be long before I can find my next Sy or Ty at the "Buy here; pay here" campus.


    on 11/20/05 5:48 PM, DOlivares wrote:


      I thought the plural of DWARF was "DWARVES"!

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