On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What is the plural of octopus? > > It's a trick question. Octopus is already plural. Monopus is singular.
People is already plural, too, but you can talk about all the peoples of the world. Also, I can use "people" as the subject and "is" as the verb, just to completely destroy any chance of a simple grammar parser being able to cope with English. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
