Thread: Errors of new allotment gardeners.
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Old 15-09-2006, 11:18 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Errors of new allotment gardeners.
In reply to David Rance ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

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! :-)

Mine is :-)

I wouldn't use it.

I don't expect you would need to.

What? Oh, yclept. Oh, all right then.

[stops posting OT stuff]



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