Proper pluralization for "anus"

[JVS]

Poll question: Proper pluralization for "anus"

any latin scholars out there?

[Padraig18]

1. Why would you EVER need to know such a thing?

I took Latin in high school, and I'm damned if I know...

:shrug:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

The Bush Cabinet (nt)

[LynneSin]

6. Damn you beat me to it!

:P

[edbermac]

2. Imus

:evilgrin:

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. It's "ani"...

oh, and the proper plural of penis is "penes" (bit of bonus info there).

[slutticus]

8. heh heh heh......"bonus"

[JVS]

11. plural of bonus is boni

[xmas74]

10. Good thing to know about the anus

but do we really have to worry about penis? We all know that there are no real men in the Bush cabinet.

[edbermac]

4. Why plural? I've only got one...

:shrug:

[last_texas_dem]

5. Ani

Ani sounds cooler, but for some reason I'm betting anuses is right...

[last_texas_dem]

9. Interesting

Tried to check in the dictionary (no help there) and discovered that an "ani" is a bird.

You learn something new every day!

[chicagojoe]

7. Assholes. n/t

[tridim]

12. Pose the question to a hot dog manufacturer

They probably use the word daily.

"Hey Frank, you got any more cow anuses over there? We're all out of lips."

[DenverDem]

13. republicans

That's where there heads are.

[RandomKoolzip]

14. So "Ani Difranco" means "Multiple Assholes from Franco?"

Sounds right to me.

[RebelOne]

15. According to the American Heritage Dictionary,

it's anuses.

[khashka]

16. According to Webster's

it's "republican". American Heritage agrees. When I checked the OED it had "Tory".

Khash.

[shawcomm]

17. Republicans

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

18. Ani, I would say

Anuses is preferred in English.

There are several "anus" words in Latin. The most common is short-a anus, accent on the nus, meaning an old woman; and the root of our word, stress on the long a, which interestingly can mean the whole ass and not just the hole. In fact the word means any kind of ring, and is used euphemistically. Vagina, on the other hand, started as a very crude joke; in common use it meant the sheath of a sword.

Ah, what a sentence... "Anuses is preferred in English"