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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Is orifices. Apart from when my brain tells me it isn't...no matter what I tried, it just didn't sound right. Surely it should be orifii...or orifici or orificii. Or some other nonsense.
I have honestly no idea why my brain started thinking this at 2am.. |
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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago
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"Is orifices. Apart from when my brain tells me it isn't...no matter what I tried, it just didn't sound right. Surely it should be orifii...or orifici or orificii. Or some other nonsense.
I have honestly no idea why my brain started thinking this at 2am.."
It sounds like it should, which I suspect is because it's from Latin, originally, (orificium).
It came into English via French though which can feck up plurals and make things seem wrong.
That's my guess.
Ask Joe, or maybe Steve. They may have thoughts on it.
As for why you wonder weird stuff at 2am, I've no clue. I do it too and sometimes it's very annoying. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Look up the etymology of the word in a good dicktionary first. It's many years since my GCSE Latin but I suspect in Latin the word, which would not have had the English ending, may have taken the plural -ae ending - orificiae. Sorry, I can't be bothered to look it up but good luck. Do post if you figure it out! |
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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago
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I have a medical dictionary here that defines the plural of orifice as orificia. It (the dictionary) is what would be described on here as "mature" though.
My Latin is pretty much nonexistent but I think orificia fits with it being from orificium?
My dictionary says it's orifices though. |
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