*LOL* I assume it's a merkin page? (Given that they seem to think that hippopotami isn't a correct plural form, whereas my 1963 English-English (as opposed to American-English)dictionary quite clearly shows that it is) It just bristles in places with "we adopted this language so now it's ours" attitudes in places ;-)
It's a wiki, so any number of people from all over might have contributed. I don't think I'd strongly disagree that "hippopotami" was hypercorrectness, either.
The bit which says that "es" (in words like "watches") is pronounced with z preceded by a neutral vowel isn't common to all of English either - my dialect (and RP speakers in general) pronounce this with the vowel of "bit", not schwa.
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Date: 2002-11-22 06:28 am (UTC)I assume it's a merkin page?
(Given that they seem to think that hippopotami isn't a correct plural form, whereas my 1963 English-English (as opposed to American-English)dictionary quite clearly shows that it is)
It just bristles in places with "we adopted this language so now it's ours" attitudes in places ;-)
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Date: 2002-11-22 07:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-11-22 05:01 pm (UTC)