#Plural of platypus movie
#Plural of platypus tv

(The 'ee' pronunciation would be more loyal to Latin, but the 'long i' pronunciation has become entrenched in English for Latin-derived words with i at the end of a syllable.) And so it goes with bogus plurals like apprent-eye. When borrowed into English, (real) Latin plurals tend to have their -i ending pronounced as 'eye' rather than 'ee': alumn-eye, stimul-eye, radi-eye. In most of these cases, -i (or -ii) gets used as a pseudo-plural suffix for words with an unstressed ending, mimicking the pluralization of second-declension masculine Latin nouns like alumnus/ alumni, stimulus/stimuli, or radius/radii.

#Plural of platypus movie

In any case, there's a long tradition of jocular faux-Latin plural forms, as Neal Whitman discussed earlier this year in ' Phoni Latin Plurals.' Neal mentions such examples as Elvi(i) as a plural for Elvis, stewardi(i) as a plural for stewardess, and Winklevi(i) as a plural of Winklevoss (referring to the Winklevoss twins depicted in the movie 'The Social Network'). I'll give both Pinkett and Trump the benefit of the doubt and assume that they weren't seriously suggesting that the plural of apprentice is apprenti instead of apprentices. It's not 'The Apprenti,' it's 'The Apprentice.'' He pronounced apprenti as Trump later would, as 'uh-PREN-tie.' (You could also interpret Pinkett as saying that it's not 'The Appren-tie' - in other words, there's no tie at the end between two winners.) Put on the spot, Pinkett responded, 'There is one and only one apprentice, and if you're going to hire someone tonight, it should be one. In the finale (video here), Trump picked Pinkett as the winner with his trademark line, 'You're hired.' But in a surprise twist, he asked Pinkett if Jarvis should also be hired by the Trump organization. The final two contestants in that season were Randal Pinkett and Rebecca Jarvis. In fact, he very well may have been harking back to another playful use of apprenti, from the fourth season of 'The Apprentice' back in 2005. He next said, 'We're going to have a little fun with it,' so perhaps Trump was simply having some fun with the pluralization of apprentice.

#Plural of platypus tv

Trump told reporters that, at Gingrich's request, he was starting a program for disadvantaged New York schoolchildren, modeled on his competitive reality TV show 'The Apprentice.' 'We're going to be picking ten young, wonderful children, and we're going to make them apprenti,' Trump said. Earlier this week, Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich emerged from a powwow with Donald Trump, and they had an announcement to make.