On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 Uncle Marvo wrote:
It can be either penises or penes.

Oh no, here we go, it can't. It is archaic, because the word has been
absorbed into English.

Not according to the Oxford English Dictionary from whence I got those
plurals.

From memory, the OED still carries the word yclept.

Yclept is marked as archaic. Penises and penes are not! :-)

I wouldn't use it.

I don't expect you would need to.

David
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