Pain in the English
Pain in the English

Unpacking English, Bit by Bit

A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.

Pain in the English
Pain in the English

Unpacking English, Bit by Bit

A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.

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Drpudding

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April 29, 2011

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Plural form of anonymous

  • April 29, 2011, 4:47am

The plural is anomymous (eg Alcoholics Anonymous).The plural of the word in the original greek would be something like anonym-οι or anonym-oi in the latin alphabet.The dipthong oi in greek is pronouced usually like "oi" in the "oil however in some case(this being one of them) is pronounced like "e"in "email".What I dont get is how the word ended up to be anonymous rather than anonymus since words like colossus have the same suffix in greek.