Moose. Meese? Wrong. Mooses? Wrong.
Crocus. Cro.........??
If you're like me, you've spent the better part of your adult life wondering how to pluralize the word crocus. One crocus, two crocus? Two crocuses? Two croci?
Well, a least Spell Check knows that croci is wrong, but what's the correct way to turn one crocus into two cro....pretty flowers? Let's take a look, once and for all. We'll make an appeal to that entity that we can't see, but guides our lives everyday... the one 'all knowing' entity that we worship.
God?
Of course not, you idiot. I'm talking about the internet. I'll look it up in an on-line dictionary.
Well prick me with some cacti, apparently you can use crocus, crocuses or croci! They're all correct. There....mystery solved. Enjoy your new found freedom, unshackled from your relentless pursuit of linguistic perfection.
P.S. Spell Check be damned.
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