To: Tijeras_Slim
And yes, I know the real plural of opus is opera.
921 posted on
11/30/2007 12:33:25 PM PST by
wideawake
(Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
To: wideawake
And yes, I know the real plural of opus is opera.
This is one of the irritating etymological truisms. There's no way in contemporary English to make any sense of it semantically as the two words have gone their separate ways. I won't even mention operas that have opus numbers.
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