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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Plural Form

What is the plural form of the word status?
  

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Anonymous What is the plural form of the word status? Hi, Have you tried looking it up in a dictionary? I remember a long thread (in these forums) where somebody argued that it should be " stati " because that's the plural form of " status " in Latin.

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  • Anonymous What is the plural form of the word status?
  • Hi, Have you tried looking it up in a dictionary?
  • I remember a long thread (in these forums) where somebody argued that it should be " stati " because that's the plural form of " status " in Latin.
  • searchword=status&x=0&y=0 says it's uncountable (so, no plural form at all).
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AnonymousWhat is the plural form of the word status?
Hi,

Have you tried looking it up in a dictionary?

I remember a long thread (in these forums) where somebody argued that it should be "stati" because that's the plural form of "status" in Latin.

However, it's "statuses" according to
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I am going to lock this thread. There were pages and pages of an old thread with people saying the same thing over and over. I know at least one person said that "stati" is wrong - people over-applying a rule they know about Latin to a noun to which that rule doesn't apply, and that it's actually "status" with a different pronunciation on the "us." At least one person said we write in English and
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