On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Charlie Smith wrote: # Devera).... I am curious as to how OFTEN we hit the mark with some of our # hypothesis(plural?). Plural is "hypotheses", with a long "ee" in the last syllable: high - POTH - uh - seez -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel