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User Name | Thread Name | Subject | Posted |
Steve Shaw | BS: Language Pet Peeves (2488* d) | RE: BS: Language Pet Peeves | 10 Jan 21 |
Dictionaries merely reflect usage, Nigel, and they don't pass judgement. Clearly, "hippopotami" is in currency so dictionaries would report it. What dictionaries won't tell you is that you might look a bit of a twit if you use "hippopotami" in anything other than a humorous context, for example, if you were writing a treatise on the biology of, er, hippopotami... I do that fun thing meself, frequently, whenever more than one hippopotamus is on the radar. |