I spent an hour and a half today racking my brains trying to remember the word "manifold". If it hadn't been for the Collins Thesaurus I would definitely have failed my Maths Exam because of that accursed niggling.
Hurrah for thesauruses!
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Surely it's "Thesauri", although I'm sure you were expecting someone to suggest this spelling and now have a wonderfully witty response to throw my way.
No, I don't, I just think that Latin words pluralise quite nicely using our native rules, there's no meaningful sense in which it's wrong to do it, and I prefer it that way because I think writing things like "thesauri" looks silly and pretentious when you're writing English.
Saves looking stupid by writing things like "virii" aswell.
Oh, I forgot to mention: I didn't have a wonderfully witty response, but I was expecting someone to suggest that.
"You raised my hopes and ashed them quite expertly. Bravo, sir!"
What word did you look up to find "manifold"?
Hmm... I know what kind of book could answer that question! A THESAURUS!
Hurrah for thesauruses!
Why use the book version when theres the web version at hand RIGHT NOW.
http://thesaurus.reference.com/
He could have looked up any of the following:
assorted, complex, copious, different, diverse, diversified, diversiform, many, multifarious, multifold, multiform, multiple, multiplied, multitudinous, multivarious, numerous, varied, various
HURRAH for web thesauruses.
In other news I have decided I dont at all like the spelling of "Thesauruses."
Diversiform's a word? That's fantastic.
Hurrah for web thesauruses!
But luckily, they are vegetarians. So, if they were to come back to life, they wouldn't harm human beings.
Hurrah for stegasauruses!
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