----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Tiller" <mtiller at ntlworld.com> To: "'Kenneth Gorelick'" <pulmon at comcast.net>; <Gaertk at aol.com>; <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 4:09 PM Subject: RE: Department of Redundancy Department (was: Dragaeran Westerns?) > > > From: Kenneth Gorelick [mailto:pulmon at comcast.net] > > Sent: 17 July 2004 05:18 > > > > Actually, that is "lazari" > > > > > When I used to play the original Sid Meier Civilization computer game, if > you had entertainers in a city, the showed up on the screen as a line of > Elvis'es...I took to calling them Elvii. Before Mark Mandel jumps in, I > know that's not the correct spelling, but it just sounds so good! > > My 2 cts. > > Cheers > > Mark If we're going to be using badly derived Latin endings, why not use the real thing? The plural of the singular 3rd declension genitive noun ending -is is -um. Even though Elvis is not genitive, Elvum sounds much cooler than Elvii. Not to get off topic or anything. Rebecca