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Re: Other rexes? (rexii?) Re: Thomas the T. rex?

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Subject: Re: Other rexes? (rexii?) Re: Thomas the T. rex?
From: Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:59:22 -0400
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Quoting Richard W Travsky <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>:

> (what the heck is the plural for rex?)

I'd go with "rexes".  For the impossibly stuffy among us, the Latin plural 
is "reges".

Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan

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- Other rexes? (rexii?) Re: Thomas the T. rex?
  - From: Richard W Travsky <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>

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