Re: monotremes and multituberculates

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 97-06-19 00:41:59 EDT, glindsay@orion.neca.com (George
Lindsay) writes:

<< He would say wrong, I believe, since the options for plural Latin
 endings are:  -i, -ae, -a.  I failed to find my copy of Cassell's
 Latin-English dictionary, however, in order to be authoritative on this
 matter--but this seems to be a confusion of Latin with Greek endings. >>

Check again. Octopus and platypus are derived from Greek, so their Latin
plurals would not necessarily follow Latin rules. Just as the English plural
of "ox" is not "oxes" (adding -s or -es) but "oxen," because "ox" is a
derived Teutonic word, and the English plural of "polyhedron" is not
"polyhedrons" but "polyhedra," derived from Greek.