On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article <54ceda0b$0$12977$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> What is the plural of octopus? > > It's a trick question. Octopus is already plural. Monopus is singular.
People is already plural, too, but you can talk about all the peoples of the world. Also, I can use "people" as the subject and "is" as the verb, just to completely destroy any chance of a simple grammar parser being able to cope with English. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
