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Niallj Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

The plural of genius

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00Yesterday's Staurday Telegraph caused me to question my current belief, that it is in fact genii, not geniuses. Could anyone give me any guidance on this matter?0-
  

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0 Plural of genius is geniuses. 02br 02br 00Genii: pl. Roman Mythology.

— Julielai

  • 0 Plural of genius is geniuses.
  • 02br 02br 00Genii: pl.
  • Roman Mythology.
  • A tutelary deity or guardian spirit of a person or place.
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0 Plural of genius is geniuses. 02br
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0 Googled www: 02br
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001,090,000 English pages for "geniuses". 02br
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00126,000 English pages for "genii". 02br
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00Googled UK pages only: 02br
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0065,400 for "geniuses". 02br
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0014,300 for "genii". 0-
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0 To judge by the first few pages on Google, most of the hits for 'genii' don't relate to 'the plural of genius'. 02br
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00As Julielai says, 'geniuses' is the usual plural. 02br
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0 I thought the plural of "genius" was "mods mods mods mods"? 02br
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Found this page by researching the same question, then researched a little more.

Currently, popularly, no, but originally, maybe, yeah.

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=genius
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was just wondering myself

perhaps no one was never meant to know.

perhaps there's only supposed 2b one
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Yes you are actually correct. This from is in Latin and is not commonly used. So when you are conversing with someone else, I suggest you use geniuses.
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0 grammar police should be shot either way. No, not shot, tortured, then slowly deprived of oxygen until death0-
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