Get rid of byte? [OT] alii

[John C]

"James Dunne" <james.jdunne at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>> "Walter Bright" <newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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>>>"Bruno Medeiros" <daiphoenixNO at SPAMlycos.com> wrote in message 
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>>>>Still, it might be nice to have those types in the language, as aliases. 
>>>>It could be a good name alternative, in some situations, to using the 
>>>>new names(like real or cent) for every new size that has come up.
>>>
>>>import std.stdint;
>>
>>
>> Could the _t suffix at least be taken off those aliases (alii?) ?  int8_t 
>> has got to be one of the ugliest things I've seen since CLK_TCK.
>
> FYI, the -i plural suffix only applies to words that end in 'us', not 'as' 
> or other variants.
>
> cactus       -> cacti
> genius       -> genii
> hippopotamus -> hippopotami
>
> Apparently, 'bus' is the exception to the rule.  "Hey look at all those 
> bi!"

Call me a pedant (it wouldn't be the first time), but 'bus' is just one of 
many exceptions.

corpus        corpora
viscus         viscera
platypus      platypuses
opus           opera
virus           viruses (although see "Use of the virii form" at 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viruses)

Bus, of course, is short for omnibus, which in Latin was a plural anyway.

>
> An interesting read: 
> http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/extabs/Plurals.html
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> James Dunne