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    Re: Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus (was: building big) —Lindsay Frederick Braun
   (...) I've always been curious why folks pluralise platypus that way. The plural is accepted to be "platypuses" in most English dictionaries, but if you work from the Greek the plural is something else, because the "-us" is part of the word's base (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 

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