[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven]
Sigh. This is the Straight Dope Message Board, you know? A repository of information of all sorts. Check the Archives from time to time: Kudos
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Umm, Dex? This looks like you’re replyng to *my *post. 
[QUOTE=DrDeth]
Umm, Dex? This looks like you’re replyng to *my *post.
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Maybe because it points out that the word is meant to be used only in the singular? 
[QUOTE=DrDeth]
It’s not a “singular Greek Noun” or even a Greek word. It’s now an English word, whose roots are in the Greek kydos. When will dudes understand that English (as most languages) borrows many of it’s words from other tongues and after a suitable period, the word no longer is a foriegn word.
Thus “kudos” is perfectly correct, much like “congratulations”.
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If it is an English word, it is still an English word that is singular in the form “kudos.”
If it is used as a plural, for the singular “kudo” it is only used that way because ignorant people have done so. Much the same way that ignorant people not only used the improper contraction of “amn’t”, but used it in improper constructions, like “I ain’t …”
Now, you can, if you wish, choose to join the ignorant masses. I have preferred, in my life, to avoid joining them when possible. Part of the point of this message board, you know? 
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal]
I suspect I was. What do you offer as the plural? Kudoses? Kudosi? Just wondering.
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I must correct myself here, having misread the post. I was using it in the common English usage, but not as a plural of kudo. I was usng it in the sense “honor,” or “award,” or “acknowledgement of acomplishment.”
I’ll ask D.S. Young again. What d you suggest as the plural of kudos?
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq]
Maybe because it points out that the word is meant to be used only in the singular?
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In that artilce, Dex said “Incidentally, kudos is singular, meaning honour, fame, or glory. If you hear someone say, “I give a kudo to so and so” (Dr. Laura did this the other day)–now that’s clueless.” Thus many argue that “Kudos” is a singular English word that ends in a “s”.
Thus, when Contrapuntal posted “Blast. I really did not think there was a real answer to my smartass question. Kudos.” he was using it correctly. And, in my example "Thus “kudos” is perfectly correct, much like “congratulations”, the word was also used correctly.
If he had posted “kudo”, you might have an argument. But as Colibri quoted Merriam-Webster above, even “kudo” is now an accepable usage.