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Re: Off topic: Latin plurals
- Subject: Re: Off topic: Latin plurals
- From: WooF owlswick@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 20:23:37 -0400 (EDT)
Back in the late 1950s (not 1950's, because the shortened form
would then be '50's, which is silly), the professors in the
Stanford Radioscience Lab -- just for the fun of it, of course --
not only spoke of "those data" but also used the fake-Latin
plurals "Xeroces" and "Kleenices."
George H Scithers of owlswick@xxxxxxxx