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Old Mon Jan 14, 2008, 10:50am
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Originally Posted by mbyron
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'.
Thank you, mb. I will always defer to someone who quotes Safire. My dear sainted grandmother will now stop rolling over in her grave.
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