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Thread #137108   Message #3134218
Posted By: Will Fly
13-Apr-11 - 06:18 AM
Thread Name: Punch out your own plectrums/plectra
Subject: RE: Punch out your own plectrums/plectra
Multiple plectrae

Hmmm... might have to dispute that. If I remember my Latin correctly, masculine singular nouns ending in um mutated to a in the plural. So:

singular plectrum becomes plural plectra

Whereas feminine singular nouns ending in a mutated to ae in the plural. Thus:

singular puella becomes plural puellae

Remember the graffiti scene in the "Life of Brian"? I was that Centurion... :-)