“apocalypse 2, electric boogaloo” is the technical biblical term.
Apocalypso. Accompanied by excellent music.
Not -εις?
And, as a matter of fact, even Donald Trump exists in the plural – there’s another one. (No relation.)
You are right. The plural is ἀποκαλύψεις. Schitte must have meant to type that but accidentally omitted an iota.
We had a thread some time back discussing people’s pet peeves. Some people, it seems, have only one pet peef while other people have two or even many peeves.
I’ve seen the word “beef” pluralized as “beeves”. (Not sure if that instance was meant to be taken seriously.)
Note that the word “person” is pluralized as both “persons” and “people”, with different meanings.
John Allen Paulos, the mathematics author, in his book Innumeracy, suggested that the plural of “spouse” might be “spice”.
C.S. Lewis used “dwarfs” in The Chronicles of Narnia.
Do the chiefs of the thieves wear briefs? Or should that be ‘chieves of the thiefs wearing brieves’?
It’s flattering to be assumed to have meant it right, but I must admit I got it wrong - I indeed thought the plural ending was -ες (possibly owing to brief excursions of mine into Modern Greek, where that is frequently seen in plural forms).
Only if they are all oaves.
More prosaically, it’s an uncovering.
I once heard that the plural of charisma is charismata. If so, that’s my favorite plural. It’s also a difficult plural to use in a sentence.
I just really really want to know the antonym
Genesis.
In a software project I worked on, a developer created names for the procedure of initializing a thing (“Genesis”) and for destroying that thing (“Armageddon”). I hated those names, especially because no one could ever remember how to spell Armageddon.
Or Apocalypto, accompanied by human sacrifice.
My previous D&D party had charismata ranging from 8 to 22.
My favorite is rhinocerontes.
“I had the soft foam football and the smooshie foam basketball. I guess there are others, too, but those were all the Nerves I needed.”
I heard that cattle ranchers call their animals “beeves,” but that it doesn’t go beyond that.
Nice!
Oh, that’s a good one.
:smack: Speaking of accidentally omitting a letter, I messed up your name, Schnitte, sorry.