[Ti] weird word pronunciation (seriously OT)

[Paul Russell]

>
>lemme "axe" you a question: when's the last time you declined a noun 
>in english (you can't deal with latin (7 cases ?) or ancient greek 
>(9 cases ?) without it. <shudder> bad memories -- dative, 
>accusative, generative, etc. case anyone?)
>

Actually Latin has 6 cases, each of which has singular and plural 
forms: nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative and 
ablative, e.g.

bellum bella
bellum bella
bellum bella
belli  bellorum
bello  bellis
bello  bellis

Paul

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