On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Kenneth Gorelick wrote: #Since this seems to be a linguistically talented group, can anyone, #using the below hypotheses, provide me with the singular of "feces"? In Latin the word is "faeces", which is the spelling used in British English. The Latin singular is "faex". If English had imported the latter we would spell it "fex" west of the Water; but we didn't. In English there is no singular form. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel