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many plants of serissa should be SerissE!

No, I'm sorry, but Serissa is not an Italian word. It is the
Latin name of a
plant. If you want to use colloquial English, you could say
Serissas, but it is
more correct to say one Serissa or several Serissa, but nothing
else.

One Serissa, two Serissa, three Serissa more.
Four Serissa, five Serissa, throw them out the door!

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - And don't
forget the apostrophous Serissa's ;-)

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[IBC] Plural
 

it is like saying 1 bread 2 bread many bread .. as correct as....:-)
some latin words ending in a plural in i acero( maple) becomes aceri
especially when is said that Serissa is a latin words latins did not put to make
plurals everywhere
but we are far from the main topic and OT anyway
Theo

Jim Lewis wrote:

many plants of serissa should be SerissE!

No, I'm sorry, but Serissa is not an Italian word. It is the
Latin name of a
plant. If you want to use colloquial English, you could say
Serissas, but it is
more correct to say one Serissa or several Serissa, but nothing
else.

One Serissa, two Serissa, three Serissa more.
Four Serissa, five Serissa, throw them out the door!

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - And don't
forget the apostrophous Serissa's ;-)

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[IBC] Plural
 

Sorry to correct you, but in Latin, the plural of -a is -ae. So it would be
Serissae...

Ulli Bauer
South Germany, zone 7b

No, I'm sorry, but Serissa is not an Italian word. It is the
Latin name of a
plant. If you want to use colloquial English, you could say
Serissas, but it is
more correct to say one Serissa or several Serissa, but nothing
else.

One Serissa, two Serissa, three Serissa more.
Four Serissa, five Serissa, throw them out the door!

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Sorry to correct you, but in Latin, the plural of -a is -ae.

We were discussing English. Besides, Serissa is the name of a genus, & the
plural is not used.
Iris,
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