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To: ZULU
FACT: The earth's climate was once far warmer than it is today. At one time there were lions and hippotamuses in England.

I am appalled at your butchering of the facts and your reckless disregard for even the most basic tenets of scientific method.

It's "hippopotami"

57 posted on 12/27/2005 5:37:16 AM PST by SlowBoat407 (The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
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To: SlowBoat407

Well, if you want to get technical, it should be Hippopotamoi and Hippopotamos from the Greek - "Hippos" Horse and Potamos "River" the -i suffix is a latin masculine Nominative plural and isn't used for Greek stem words, including Anglicized Greek Stems. The -oi suffix is the Greek masculine Nominative plural noun suffix.


62 posted on 12/27/2005 7:35:58 AM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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