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Re: Clarifying Terminology ... A Personal Crusade, if You Will

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Subject: Re: Clarifying Terminology ... A Personal Crusade, if You Will
From: "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 15:28:56 +0100
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The plural would be "caudorbitossia".

Wrong. Just checked in the dictionary, and it turns out what I specifically learnt in school was correct: the plural of os is ossa. (Not to be confused with the other os, which means mouth, plural ora.)

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