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History Forum / General / British History / July 2008Forming English Plurals From Greek Words Ending In _ON_
Pogue Larry Swain, [how appropriately named] is a young, still wet-behind-the-ears, graduate student in Mediaeval History at No-Name University, where he is desperately trying to cadge a Ph.D. from the totally undistinguished faculty, by writing a micro-mini-boutique dissertation on an obscure subject... So he can become an obscure professor. He is so pig-ignorant and cunniculan-pygan that he has not even learned to form proper English plurals from Greek Words ending in _ON_. Here is a starter lesson for Pogue Swain and other little pogues and poguettes who are lesser breeds without the law. Any graduate student in either the Humanities or Sciences should know this material -- indeed should have learned it as an undergraduate. Fowler Is Your Friend. Say & Write: CRITERION, CRITERIA NOUMENON, NOUMENA ORGANON, ORGANA OXYMORON, OXYMORA PHENOMENON, PHENOMENA BUT: ELECTRON, ELECTRONS LEXICON, LEXICONS NEUTRON, NEUTRONS PROTON, PROTONS SKELETON, SKELETONS ANION, ANIONS ARCHON, ARCHONS CANON, CANONS COTYLEDON, COTYLEDONS CYCLOTRON, CYCLOTRONS DEMON, DEMONS MASTODON, MASTODONS NYLON, NYLONS PYLON, PYLONS SIPHON, SIPHONS TENON, TENONS Here Endeth The Lesson... Additional Study Is Left As An Exercise For The Reader... John 5:14 Matthew 7:6  SignatureDSH Lux et Veritas et Libertas Vires et Honor Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum > Pogue Larry Swain, [how appropriately named] is a young, still > wet-behind-the-ears, graduate student in Mediaeval History at No-Name [quoted text clipped - 55 lines] > Vires et Honor > Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Commodore Spencer Hines: You leave us speechless with your knowledge of Greek and of orthography. Cheers, David H ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fowler Is Your Friend. SignatureDSH Lux et Veritas et Libertas Vires et Honor >> Pogue Larry Swain, [how appropriately named] is a young, still >> wet-behind-the-ears, graduate student in Mediaeval History at No-Name [quoted text clipped - 68 lines] > Cheers, David H > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Pogue Larry Swain, [how appropriately named] is a young, Really? How little you know me, David. still > wet-behind-the-ears, No, dried them this morning. graduate student in Mediaeval History at No-Name > University, Wow, even spying on someone you can't get it right. And the university has a name. where he is desperately trying to cadge a Ph.D. from the totally > undistinguished faculty, Really? Huh, cause the 2 heads of my committee are very well known in their fields. by writing a micro-mini-boutique dissertation on an > obscure subject... Writing on the most prolific author of Anglo-Saxon period is obscure? Huh...that's like saying using common Latin tag lines in posts is obscure. Not sure what a "micor-mini-boutique dissertation" is, but mine is over 400 pages long, deals with reading Old English and Anglo-Latin manuscripts, and have already a book deal with one of the toughest places to get a book deal with. What have you got Hinesy? Your dick out on your keyboard looking at some poor black girl having sex for money with a desperate white guy like yourself? > So he can become an obscure professor. Better than being a failure and bugging people on Usenet. > He is so pig-ignorant and cunniculan-pygan that he has not even learned to > form proper English plurals from Greek Words ending in _ON_. Except that were it a Greek word (it never occurs in Greek manuscripts), it would be an ADJECTIVE of the 2nd Declension, in -os, -a -on. In point of fact, it is a post classical Latin word made up of elements of GREEK and appears in Latin texts as oxymorus, oxyomora, oxymorum and taken into English in the 17th century where the first plural form is: yes...wait for it now, 1677, with OXYMORONS! ALL ENGLISH dictionaries give "OXYMORONS" as the most common and acceptable plural form. Want to try and pretend to know Greek now like you pretend to know Latin....hey btw, still waiting for an answer to my Latin message.....need some help understanding it? > Here is a starter lesson for Pogue Swain and other little pogues and > poguettes who are lesser breeds without the law. > > Any graduate student in either the Humanities or Sciences should know this > material -- indeed should have learned it as an undergraduate. Indeed you should have, but alas your ignorance shows consistently. > Fowler Is Your Friend. Which Fowler might you be referring to? William Chauncey Fowler? H. W. Fowler, both of them referring to British English? > Say & Write: The Cambridge Guide to English Usage, a bit newer than ol' Fowler (whichever Fowler we wish to follow) [2004] states: Like other Greek loanwords ending in -on, oxymoron has a plural in oxymora (see -on) as well as an English oxymorons. Matthew 11:23 Then, of course we have: PROLEGOMENON, PROLEGOMENA SignatureDSH Lux et Veritas et Libertas Vires et Honor |
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