http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/diocese Language in a word Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:13:52 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/diocese/comment-page-1#comment-3816 andii Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:41:46 +0000 http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/diocese#comment-3816 It's interesting to note what people go for to make the plural. I work in a college training vicars and so get a fair bit of exposure to how people suddenly realise that they have no models to go on and that the 'regular' syllabification doesn't lend itself to euphony. I like the 'diocis'/'dioses' version which is a regular, modelled presumably on words such as 'analysis'/'analyses'. Mostly we end up with 'diocis/dioceses' (sorry, can't get easy access to IPA for comments at the moment). It’s interesting to note what people go for to make the plural. I work in a college training vicars and so get a fair bit of exposure to how people suddenly realise that they have no models to go on and that the ‘regular’ syllabification doesn’t lend itself to euphony. I like the ‘diocis’/'dioses’ version which is a regular, modelled presumably on words such as ‘analysis’/'analyses’. Mostly we end up with ‘diocis/dioceses’ (sorry, can’t get easy access to IPA for comments at the moment).

]]> http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/diocese/comment-page-1#comment-626 Jorge Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:48:36 +0000 http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/diocese#comment-626 I thought I was the only one who was so perturbed about this one! I thought I was the only one who was so perturbed about this one!

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