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Originally Posted by pre65
railbusi (plural of railbus ?  ) |
Nice try, but the plural of railbus can only be railbuses.
Some words derived from the Latin and ending in -us can be made plural by changing the ending to -i, so railbus would be railbi; but railbus is not a Latin noun. It is formed from the prefix rail- and the suffix -bus, which is itself a contraction of
omnibus, being the dative plural case of
omes, all, and meaning
for all. So while
railbus may sound like a Latin noun of the second declension, it ain't, and can't be declined like one.
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