{"id":5697,"date":"2004-01-22T07:22:39","date_gmt":"2004-01-22T14:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/01\/22\/cant-tell-your-plurals-without-a-program.html"},"modified":"2004-01-22T07:22:39","modified_gmt":"2004-01-22T14:22:39","slug":"cant_tell_your","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/22\/cant_tell_your.html","title":{"rendered":"Can’t tell your plurals without a program"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not just a geek, I’m a classical <\/i>geek. Hence, I dig articles like this recent Straight Dope column on Latin (mostly) plurals in English<\/a>, which starts off with the penetrating question, What is the plural of “penis”?<\/i><\/p>\n

(via Sasha Volokh<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not just a geek, I’m a classical geek. Hence, I dig articles like this recent Straight Dope column on Latin (mostly) plurals in English, which starts off with the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45959,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/15\/neil-gaiman-thinks-the-fake-geek-twaddle-is-twaddle.html","url_meta":{"origin":5697,"position":0},"title":"Neil Gaiman thinks the "Fake Geek" twaddle is twaddle","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Oct-14 3:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Fake geeks\"? 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