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quoted 8 lines Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 23:23:36 -0500

>Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 23:23:36 -0500 >From: Rjyan C Kidwell <cardhore@juno.com> >Subject: Re: (idm) strangelove kubrik > >speaking of plurals of feminine nouns, what the hell is the >plural of "clitoris"? i've been wanting to know that for years. >anybody? alex, maybe? is it 'clitorises?' that just sounds >wrong. but 'clitori' sounds just plain silly.

the plural of 'clitoris' doesn't come up much in conversation, unless you're shooting the breeze with an amateur gynecologist, a professional lesbian, or a male IDM listener. i think 'clitorides' is the proper form, though 'clitoriseseses' -- like 'breastses' or any other pseudoplural female naughty bits -- is much more fun to say out loud. -a. __________________________________________________________________________ Alex Reynolds Distributed Support Specialist Department of Biology School of Arts & Sciences Computing University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA

Alex Reynolds wrote:

quoted 3 lines i think 'clitorides' is the proper form,

>i think 'clitorides' is the proper form, >though 'clitoriseseses' -- like 'breastses' or any other pseudoplural >female naughty bits -- is much more fun to say out loud.

That's got me beat. I always assumed that Clitorides was the Greek god of fruits and vegetables or something. eek, _10m np: 0161

On 10 Mar 99, Tom Young wrote re: Re: (idm) our bodies, our selves:

quoted 1 line Clitorides was the Greek god of fruits and vegetables

> Clitorides was the Greek god of fruits and vegetables

Ha ha !!! Excellent way to start the morning - making mental meanderings along these lines while listening to Bisk's "Time". Somehow, it all works :-) I did want to ask the original poster *why* he needed the plural - just checked the Oxford Eng. Dict. and it does not list one. We're probably not expected to deal with more than one at a time ?? Although it's easy enough to have a plural of the male counterpart. Ahem. I *

Gee. I always thought the Clitorides were the elements that came after the Lanthanides. Either that, or a series of split EPs released on Cheap. Or an alien race. Whatever. I'm gonna start using that word on a regular basis now. Y'all have created a monster. Tom

quoted 5 lines Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:50:36 -0500

>Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:50:36 -0500 >From: Alex Reynolds <reynolda@sas.upenn.edu> >Subject: (idm) our bodies, our selves > >>From: Rjyan C Kidwell <cardhore@juno.com>

quoted 8 lines speaking of plurals of feminine nouns, what the hell is the

>>speaking of plurals of feminine nouns, what the hell is the >>plural of "clitoris"? i've been wanting to know that for years. >>anybody? alex, maybe? is it 'clitorises?' that just sounds >>wrong. but 'clitori' sounds just plain silly. > >the plural of 'clitoris' doesn't come up much in conversation, unless >you're shooting the breeze with an amateur gynecologist, a professional >lesbian, or a male IDM listener. i think 'clitorides' is the proper

form,

quoted 2 lines though 'clitoriseseses' -- like 'breastses' or any other pseudoplural

>though 'clitoriseseses' -- like 'breastses' or any other pseudoplural >female naughty bits -- is much more fun to say out loud.

ah! you're like the unofficial Cecial Adams of the idm list. but i think the word should be "clitora" pronounced "clit-or-uh." much prettiers than "clitorides" or "clit`oray" or "clitorees." and it does come up in conversation kind of often. i mean, just the other day i was telling a story to kid606 and i said, "dude, now i've seem some clitora in my day, but this one surely took the cake! so i took out my electric sander..." rjck./!)_ armchairbeatarchitecture!)www.gl.umbc.edu/~nworth1 ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:13:26 -0800 (PST), you wrote:

quoted 4 lines and it does come up in conversation kind of often. i mean,

>>and it does come up in conversation kind of often. i mean, >>just the other day i was telling a story to kid606 and i said, >>"dude, now i've seem some clitora in my day, but this one >>surely took the cake! so i took out my electric sander..."

quoted 2 lines man, this is the furthest i've seen anyone reach to namedrop in a long

>man, this is the furthest i've seen anyone reach to namedrop in a long >time.

yeahhh.. i'm a good friend of electric sander, and he doesn't know this guy at all.