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You're probably right. Endings of "us" is masculine and "ae" is feminine and "i" is plural - as in alumnus, alumnae and alumni?LarryH wrote:Tauri, I believe -- masculine, nominative caseOldgringo wrote:I think the plural of Taurus would be Taurae but maybe not? It's been so many years since I studied Latin and then met so few Romans during the ensuing years, I'm a little rusty.
I think the plural of Taurus would be Taurae but maybe not? It's been so many years since I studied Latin and then met so few Romans during the ensuing years, I'm a little rusty.couzin wrote:It was about 1P or so. My wife and I were an aisle over - scared the crap outta me, i heard a distinct beewweeeuuuu go past us, I guess a fragment as one of the other dealers said the round went into a box - Fort Worth's finest were there in nanoseconds. We were at Winchesters a few months back and a guy on the range put a round through his hand, now this at a gun show - my wife is ready to sell everything and never have anything to do with shooting sports again.
Other than the ND - show was good. Handgun prices for the most part were not more than normal. EBR's were prominant. Picked up a NIB S&W 360PD for $710.00. The dealers were definately processing a lot of paper. I have never seen so many Taurus's (Taurii?) being sold.
Quite the contrary, incidents like that prove that firearms should not be in the hands of...oh, well, you know what the 'antis' say.