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+1 for an excellent answer! I’ve never consciously noticed it before, but status(es) really is quite odd in my idiolect: I tend to pronounce the singular /ˈstatəs/ and the plural /ˈsteɪtəsəz/, with the vowel in the first syllable distributed precisely the other way around from genus/genera and opus/opera. That said, neither /ˈsteɪtəs/ nor /ˈstatəsəz/ sounds odd to me, and I’ve probably used both on various occasions.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Commented Jan 24, 2018 at 16:46
@JanusBahsJacquet: I've moved the pronunciation stuff into a different post
– herisson
Commented Jan 24, 2018 at 17:46

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