# Misunderstood plurals, or possibly just weird linguistic stuffs

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**Created:** [October 5, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misunderstood-plurals-or-possibly-just-weird-linguistic-stuffs/972778 "2022-10-05T20:03:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misunderstood-plurals-or-possibly-just-weird-linguistic-stuffs/972778/121 "2022-10-11T03:44:21Z")

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Rudi Gernreich definitely named the monokini as a joke. If anyone doesn’t know the history, Louis Reard’s bikini was named after Bikini Atoll, the site of the first public nuclear test, because the tiny suit would create just as much of an explosion. Seriously. The fact that “bi” was in the name was just coincidence, but monokini and trikini and all the rest are backformed from the original.

We covered the monokini in [Rudi Gernreich’s pubikini - This, I gotta see!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudi-gernreichs-pubikini-this-i-gotta-see/470091) I got a whole bunch of Popular Link badges from that thread.

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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misunderstood-plurals-or-possibly-just-weird-linguistic-stuffs/972778/122 "2022-10-12T17:43:21Z")

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> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> got a whole bunch of Popular Link badges from that thread.

Some of them well deserved. Some of them … not 😉

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**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misunderstood-plurals-or-possibly-just-weird-linguistic-stuffs/972778/123 "2022-10-12T18:12:04Z")

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> [@Acsenray](#):
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> Some of them well deserved. Some of them … not 😉

Two out of three of my most popular links I got badges for include nudity. That wasn’t intentional, but is not surprising…

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