[WikiEN-l] WikiWomen (was Partial deletion)
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Sun Jul 6 23:59:00 UTC 2003
steve vertigo wrote:
>Alright, alright... I got the point. Would the people
>with clitorises stop making fun of the people with
>penises, please? It's no picnic to carry on of *these
>around -- as evidenced by constant presumptiveness,
>bountiful typographical errors, and an early risk of
>alzheimers.
>
My OED says nothing about the plural of "clitoris"; even the above might
be read as "people with a clitoris" as it would be freaky for anybody to
have more than one. Still there are grammatical circumstances in my
warped mind where the plural is imaginable. "Clitoris" is a word of
Greek origin, and I wonder whether the proper plural might be "clitorides"
Ec
More information about the WikiEN-l
mailing list