Timeline for What is the proper plural form of 'apparatus'?
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| Nov 6, 2015 at 0:37 | comment | added | herisson | Relevant overall discussion: How do you decline nouns borrowed from languages with several categories for declining nouns (or none at all)? | |
| Feb 22, 2015 at 0:23 | history | protected | tchrist♦ | ||
| Oct 23, 2014 at 22:36 | answer | added | Denis MacEoin | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 16, 2014 at 1:51 | comment | added | user72194 | Definitely never octopi - the original word is Greek but is octopous; so octopus is always an English word taking an English plural. Antipodes is a Greek plural, but oddly one never sees thee singular, although when people in Europe say that I'm from the antipodes I point out that so are they - I'm from the southern antipous, they're from the northern. An otherwise useful website referred to in this discussion claims that datum is never used in English; an engineer will quickly disabuse you of that misconception; certainly I prefer to treat data as plural but wouldn't say it was wrong to do ot | |
| Jan 26, 2014 at 3:34 | answer | added | Adam Brown | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 25, 2014 at 23:50 | comment | added | MPW | "Apparatus" has Latin plural "apparatus" (not "apparati"--my Latin teachers would be appalled). English can either accommodate the Latin plural "apparatus" or use the English plural "apparatuses" of the anglicized word. Both are correct. | |
| Jan 25, 2014 at 22:29 | vote | accept | einpoklum | ||
| Jan 25, 2014 at 19:20 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| Jan 25, 2014 at 19:11 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/427156692225503232 | ||
| Jan 25, 2014 at 19:03 | answer | added | terdon | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 25, 2014 at 18:56 | answer | added | Barrie England | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jan 25, 2014 at 18:52 | answer | added | Peter Shor | timeline score: 77 | |
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| Jan 25, 2014 at 18:30 | comment | added | einpoklum | @JohnLawler: Should I check its passport into English-land then? | |
| Jan 25, 2014 at 18:28 | comment | added | John Lawler | Try it out and see. It certainly comes from a Latin word, but did it bring along its Latin plural form? Many don't. | |
| Jan 25, 2014 at 18:27 | history | edited | John Lawler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 25, 2014 at 18:23 | history | asked | einpoklum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |