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doyle ([personal profile] doyle) wrote2003-04-09 08:54 pm
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Word troubles

Gah.

Anyone know the plural of apocalypse? I know it's something like apocastastes, but google's giving me nothing and I can't look up dictionary.com because I don't know how to spell it!! (We have no paper dictionaries in the house. On Monday, when I needed to skim the Book of Revelation for my drabble - no problem. Different editions of the Bible abound. Yet no dictionaries. Go figure.)
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[identity profile] ex-devilpigl935.livejournal.com 2003-04-09 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
According to my huge-ass Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged (that's an understatement) you just add an 's'. Apocalypses. I dunno. Seems odd to me.

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[identity profile] doyle_sb4.livejournal.com 2003-04-09 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Neil Gaiman lied to me?! Say it ain't so! Anyone got a copy of Signal to Noise handy? It's what the director wants to call his movie...
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[identity profile] mlyn.livejournal.com 2003-04-09 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
*Looks around* Sorry to crash the party...nobody here knows me, this is a friend of a friend of a friend type thing, but anyway...

I concur on the spelling. It seems okay to me, considering "synapse" and other such words. There's probably a greek or latin root in there that makes a rule.

Love your icon, devilpiglet.

[identity profile] ex-devilpigl935.livejournal.com 2003-04-09 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! It's from an old 'X-Files' episode. And I adore yours as well -- come sit by me at the spoiler-free lunch table. (As I munch on Cheetos) So, think Tara's gonna come back from the dead and declare her eternal devotion to Giles in the final episode? Or what?

And on a totally unrelated note -- since I seem to have hijacked [livejournal.com profile] doyle_sb4's LJ, I shall take this opportunity to pimp her hilarious Season 7 riff which I just discovered: Breaking New Ground (http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/scourgeofeurope/writersmeeting.htm). Loved the diagram!!!
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[identity profile] mlyn.livejournal.com 2003-04-09 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, X-Files goodness with the Jody Foster guest voice-over. *Happy bouncing* As for Tara, I dunno, Amber Benson's too protective of her character to come back after the last powwow fell through. I'm pretty sure I would've heard non-spoilery info about new powwowing if it was occurring. I'll light a candle for your hope, though. ;)

[identity profile] apatheticevil.livejournal.com 2003-04-09 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd say apocalypses, but only because I don't know any better. It doesn't really need a plural form, does it? I mean, you can only have one. *g*
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