The French analogy above is irrelevant; Latin is very exact in these matters and would use either vitae or vitarum depending on the number of lives in question.

Is it also OK to write: I've forgotten to ask a question? Yes, but I like your original better! no difference I didn't say that. Saying two sentences are correct is not the same as saying there is no difference between them!

The phenomena is not without parallel analogies. In any other group I'd hesitate to mention this, but that should be "phenomenon". "Phenomena" is the plural. John Hall "George the Third Ought never to have occurred.

When the plurals of fung us and cact us are fung i and cact i (or cactuses), why the plural of corpus is not corpi but corpora (or corpuses)? I know it would sound strange, but by analogy it should be similar to the previous ones.

Hi Joseph, here is a reply to your post. It’s a long time after the original post, so you may not look at it, but maybe someone else will. My reply is rather long, but much shorter than your text, so maybe it will stimulate more discussion.

To be perfectly honest, even though I know that the first is 'correct', I prefer the second, probably by analogy with Both he and his friend are uninterested in contemporary arts. I sense that more than one thing is being negated;

Good luck with the fundraising Here's a couple bacteriologists, containerboards, discourageable, rebroadcasting, ribonucleosides, ribonucleotides, subdistricting antiobscenities, bacteriologies, bacteriologist, biconditionals,

In terms of grammatical correctness, it is essential to keep in mind whether the pronoun in question should be subjective or objective. One says "My wife and I own this tree" because in this case one ("I") is the subject of the verb. One uses "me"

Milky, I'm sorry, but the 'sheep' analogy is not relevantl Here, quoted from Purdue University Online Writing Lab : While uncountable nouns do not generally take a plural form, sometimes they may be pluralized when used in a countable sense.

Hvpl wrote: I understand that certain nouns (collective nouns?) that do not have a plural word. E.g. aircraft, rain and perspiration. However, I come across such usage, specially in Asia. "Many aircraftS are taking off and landing at this