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Proper_Budget_2790 t1_jaxags5 wrote

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Uteri?

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chasonreddit t1_jaxbxm6 wrote

Hmmm. I usually go with the classical plural for latin based terms, but I have certainly seen both. OED gives both plurals as acceptable.

But I appreciate the comment. I used to do a lot of proofreading. Reddit can be painful sometimes.

In this sense it's more of a descriptor than a plural. Almost everyone has either 1 or 0.

I suppose I would be more proper to say "People with a uterus."

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Proper_Budget_2790 t1_jaxcgn3 wrote

I actually wasn't sure that was even an option. 😁

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chasonreddit t1_jaxdsrv wrote

Sure, I'm a grammar nazi. If a word is based in latin and ends in -us it is usually plural as -i. Radius/radii, Cactus/Cacti, etc. Except when it's not. We usually don't say a university with multiple locations has campi, or that a group of naked men are showing their ani.

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