I must say, since I'm trying to spark an honest and civil bipartisan discussion of this, I was honored to see on the front page of your newspaper today one of your most distinguished alumnuses, the Speaker of the House, acknowledges that the economic program has brought some good results to the United States of America, because it has; it was the right thing to do, and it is moving the country forward. From Wordnik.com. [President Remarks To Emory University Students] Reference
However, many foreign-derived nouns do not form the plural by simply adding on the suffix "- s" but they rather retain the plural form in their original language; for example, alumni rather than alumnuses, strata rather than stratums, crises rather than crisises, criteria rather than criterions, meninges rather than meninxes, kibbutzim rather than kibbutzes. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Most educated people are very strict on using the native Latin plural in words like alumni, lacunae and fora as opposed to alumnuses, lacunas and forums, but don’t seem to worry about getting the case right, always using the nominative. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » PC] Reference
Most educated people are very strict on using the native Latin plural in words like alumni, lacunae and fora (as opposed to alumnuses, lacunas and forums), but don’t seem to worry about getting the case right, always using the nominative. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » PC] Reference
Knox is one of the alumnuses of the college. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Grammar and Composition] Reference
Dr. Pound notes many other barbarous plurals, not mentioned above, e. g., antennas, cerebras, alumnas, alumnuses, narcissuses, apparatuses, emporiums, opuses, criterions, ambas, cactuses, phenomenons. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8. American Spelling. 6. The Treatment of Loan-Words] Reference
39 allow, 41 alloy, 209 allreit, 413 all right, 404, 407, 413, 416 allrightnick, 407 all Sunday, 188 all the further, 313 all the later, 313 ally, 209 all year, 188 almoner, 130 almond, 211, 215 alms, 215 aloha, 204 aloof, 219 alright, 36, 247 alter, 149 altered, 241 altfäschen, 398 altho, 244, 246, 247 aluminium, 253, 254 aluminum, 196, 253, 254 alumnae, 245 alumnas, 252 alumnis, 252 alumnuses, 252 am, 272, 288 amachoor, 318 amass, 110, 216 amateur, 141 ambassador, 226, 227 ambish, 184 amen, 215, 216. From Wordnik.com. [Mencken, H] Reference
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