[WikiEN-l] WikiWomen (was Partial deletion)

Sun Jul 6 23:59:00 UTC 2003

steve vertigo wrote:

>Alright, alright... I got the point.  Would the people
>with clitorises stop making fun of the people with
>penises, please?  It's no picnic to carry on of *these
>around -- as evidenced by constant presumptiveness,
>bountiful typographical errors, and an early risk of
>alzheimers.
>
My OED says nothing about the plural of "clitoris"; even the above might 
be read as "people with a clitoris" as it would be freaky for anybody to 
have more than one.  Still there are grammatical circumstances in my 
warped mind where the plural is imaginable.  "Clitoris" is a word of 
Greek origin, and I wonder whether the proper plural might be "clitorides"

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