# Those wacky plurals!

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 16, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-wacky-plurals/317331 "2005-08-16T21:44:43Z")\
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> [@Asimovian](#):
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> I’m sure some of these variations exist in other universibus.

Now, wait just two cotton-pickin’ minutim, here!

The “-ibus” ending was one of the main Latin declensions for the **genitive** plural. “Universibus” wouldn’t merely be the plural of “Universe,” it would be the **posessive** plural of “Universe,” i.e. it would mean the same thing as "Universes’ ".

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