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Linguistics Question
« on: August 25, 2007, 12:25:52 am »
"Scrotum" is a plural noun. 

What is the singular form? 
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Re: Linguistics Question
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2007, 12:31:47 am »
It's, um, not a plural noun.  Scrotum is singular; scrota is plural.
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Re: Linguistics Question
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2007, 01:03:47 am »
A plural noun that should never be used:

"All day long, I examine scrota"
"Would you like to see my collection of scrota?"
"Half a pound of ground lamb, two cornish game hens, and as many scrota as you can find."
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Re: Linguistics Question
« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2007, 01:57:29 am »
Quote from: jaydub on August 25, 2007, 01:03:47 am
A plural noun that should never be used:

"All day long, I examine scrota"
"Would you like to see my collection of scrota?"
"Half a pound of ground lamb, two cornish game hens, and as many scrota as you can find."

Well, only because it's an ugly word.
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Re: Linguistics Question
« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2007, 02:01:51 am »
Like my scrotum here it is in a nutshell.

Damn you, Jimmy Pop! That's going to be in my head for days now.
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Re: Linguistics Question
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2007, 03:14:26 am »
Oh dang.  I misread the answers.com dictionary entry. 

I read it as n., pl. when instead it was n.; pl -ta. 

Ah, well.  Still got the basic gist of the question answered. 
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Re: Linguistics Question
« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2007, 03:15:53 am »
Heh. that's awesome. Tiny can to Jay. Hell of ugly word.
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Re: Linguistics Question
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2007, 03:25:56 am »
But I think we can all agree they aren't bad things, per se.
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Re: Linguistics Question
« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2007, 11:23:36 pm »
Not as ugly as a sack full of cocks though.
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Re: Linguistics Question
« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2007, 11:29:37 pm »
Quote from: jaydub on August 26, 2007, 11:23:36 pm
Not as ugly as a sack full of cocks though.

Huh. I thought the canonical was 'bucket of cocks'.
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Re: Linguistics Question
« Reply #10 on: August 27, 2007, 12:32:10 am »
Quote from: Nabubrush drinks (a lot) on August 26, 2007, 11:29:37 pm
Huh. I thought the canonical was 'bucket of cocks'.

When I was young, we could only afford such as a sachet of cocks.
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Re: Linguistics Question
« Reply #11 on: August 27, 2007, 12:33:54 am »
Quote from: smick on August 27, 2007, 12:32:10 am
When I was young, we could only afford such as a sachet of cocks.

A bowl of dicks?
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Re: Linguistics Question
« Reply #12 on: August 27, 2007, 02:15:18 am »
Quote from: Nabubrush drinks (a lot) on August 26, 2007, 11:29:37 pm
Huh. I thought the canonical was 'bucket of cocks'.
You're right.  I conflated it with "Dumb as a sack of hammers".
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Re: Linguistics Question
« Reply #13 on: August 27, 2007, 04:40:12 pm »
*I* thought the saying was "a bucket of vaginas." 

Which always confused me, because a vaginas to me is defined by negative space.  A bucket of labia, sure.  Cervices, fine.  Clitorises?  Even better.  (Clitori?  Spellcheck says no.)  But a bucket of vaginas? 

I don't think so. 

Edited because: damn you Jough and your damn word filters, sometimes a pu$$y is just a vagina!
« Last Edit: August 27, 2007, 07:01:05 pm by jldunston »
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Re: Linguistics Question
« Reply #14 on: August 27, 2007, 05:24:32 pm »
A bucket of ceviche for everyone!

I thought the pussy was the whole shmear, so to speak. A bucket of pu$$ye?
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