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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 01:38 PM
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Poll question: Proper pluralization for "anus"
any latin scholars out there?
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 01:39 PM
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1. Why would you EVER need to know such a thing?
I took Latin in high school, and I'm damned if I know...

:shrug:
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 01:39 PM
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The Bush Cabinet (nt)
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 01:44 PM
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6. Damn you beat me to it!
:P
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 01:39 PM
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2. Imus
:evilgrin:
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 01:40 PM
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3. It's "ani"...
oh, and the proper plural of penis is "penes" (bit of bonus info there).
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slutticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 01:45 PM
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8. heh heh heh......"bonus"
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 01:47 PM
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11. plural of bonus is boni
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 01:47 PM
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10. Good thing to know about the anus
but do we really have to worry about penis? We all know that there are no real men in the Bush cabinet.
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 01:41 PM
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4. Why plural? I've only got one...
:shrug:
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last_texas_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 01:43 PM
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5. Ani
Ani sounds cooler, but for some reason I'm betting anuses is right...
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last_texas_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 01:46 PM
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9. Interesting
Tried to check in the dictionary (no help there) and discovered that an "ani" is a bird.

You learn something new every day!
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chicagojoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 01:45 PM
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7. Assholes. n/t
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 01:47 PM
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12. Pose the question to a hot dog manufacturer
They probably use the word daily.

"Hey Frank, you got any more cow anuses over there? We're all out of lips."
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DenverDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 01:48 PM
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13. republicans
That's where there heads are.
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 01:49 PM
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14. So "Ani Difranco" means "Multiple Assholes from Franco?"
Sounds right to me.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 01:52 PM
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15. According to the American Heritage Dictionary,
it's anuses.
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 01:53 PM
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16. According to Webster's
it's "republican". American Heritage agrees. When I checked the OED it had "Tory".

Khash.
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shawcomm Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 01:54 PM
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17. Republicans
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HEIL PRESIDENT GOD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 02:06 PM
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18. Ani, I would say
Edited on Wed Feb-23-05 02:07 PM by HEIL PRESIDENT GOD
Anuses is preferred in English.

There are several "anus" words in Latin. The most common is short-a anus, accent on the nus, meaning an old woman; and the root of our word, stress on the long a, which interestingly can mean the whole ass and not just the hole. In fact the word means any kind of ring, and is used euphemistically. Vagina, on the other hand, started as a very crude joke; in common use it meant the sheath of a sword.

Ah, what a sentence... "Anuses is preferred in English"
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