plurali

today there was some good chit going on in the waterpolo aka haters chat i'd be remiss not to document this.

never doubt the flow of a conversation when it somehow lands on (or up) the final processor of the digestive system: namely, the anus.

ck brought it up today. i forgot how, but that's irrelevant.

for another unknown reason he had to talk about its plural and we arrived at the debate if it should be anuses or ani.

wtf? who even thinks about such things?

one might attribute it on the lockdown; but i could have as easily imagined this conversation in non-covid times.

miao checked it and surprise, surprise: both forms are acceptable.

well i didn't find that acceptable. i thought something was really wrong with the english language.

for starters, this "-us" to "-i" plural endings are not applied consistently across the language. sure we know english is a pretty messed up language with a million exceptions, but if more than one syllabus is syllabi and more than one anus is ani then surely more than one bus is bi?

okay fine so perhaps it's the exceptions that make the language beautiful.

now on to my main gripe.

don't know if you've read bookworm club books when you were young. they were popular in singapore back in the 80s-90s. it was a children's series, documenting the (mis)adventures of a bunch of seven kids in school.

the singaporean version of enid blyton's secret seven or famous five, if you will.

in typical singaporean fashion they had to make sure each race and gender was represented. so there was smarty, louie, kokku, simone, sam seng (how the fuck am i remembering all these omg), porky and last but not least..

FAT ANI.

did i ruin your childhood? you're welcome.