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Old Mon Jan 14, 2008, 08:41am
mbyron mbyron is offline
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Originally Posted by rainmaker
Lots of possible scenariae.
Ew.

'Scenario' is an English word and gets an English plural ending: 'scenarios'.

If you want to be cute about it, you should use the proper Italian plural ending, and you'd have 'scenari'.

Reminds me of an old Safire smackdown over the plural of octopus. 'Octopi' puts a Latin plural ending on a Greek root, which is wrong. The correct Greek-based plural would be 'octopodes', which might be correct but is pedantic as hell. So stick with an English plural ending: 'octopuses'.
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