Old Rule(s)
February 22nd, 2008, at 7:07 a.m.
The phrase is “goings-on,” not “going-ons,” and streets have passers-by, not passer-bys.
If you have more than one attorney general, then you have some attorneys general. Likewise, more than one surgeon general constitutes some surgeons general.
You might infer something from what I say, and I may be implying something with my words, but not vice-versa.
And finally, the plural of mongoose is mongooses, the plural of virus is viruses, the plural of octopus is your choice of octopuses or octopodes but most emphatically not octopi, and putting a comma between two independent clauses is not optional.
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