Plural of the word "status"

[beascarpetta]

Originally Posted by MikeNewYork

I think we should get into that. I was not fond of high school Latin until I got into college. Then, the value was revealed to me - law, medicine, English, vocabulary, etc. I would support compulsory Latin for anyone interested in academics.

I really salute that.

[MrPedantic]

Originally Posted by beascarpetta

would you rather have examples taken from prose authors or poets (where there might be ambiguous undertones concerning the meaning of the word "status" such as in Plautus,slightly ironic even) and which era would you be most interested in?

That was remarkably speedy, Bea. It took me five minutes to find my meagre one, and you've brought up a netful.

I'll take whatever you've got.

All the best,

MrP

[beascarpetta]

would the quotes such as I posted on page 2 be alright or would you need more information

as to which book,verse,etc they are taken from?

glad to be of help.so nice to find people who still know Latin.

[rudeboyal]

Please excuse me for saying the following but I believe it is important that this is known.

I am a man with American nationality but was raised in England and although I love America in many ways there is, among the few things I dislike, the fact that some Americans seem to forget where their language comes from. This is quite displeasing because language is one of the key aspects of culture and for those who don't know where the language spoken in America (other than Spanish) comes from... it comes from England.

The word STATUS, in plural, is STATUS, although derived from Latin, where words as such, in the plural form, end in "i".

Please repeat the word STATUSES in your mind or in a full sentence out loud and tell me that it is not one bloody mouthful of a word to pronounce and that, even if one could be bothered to pronounces such a word, it just does not sound right! English is a beautiful language derived, throughout history, from many languages such as Latin, French and Germanic languages as well as Celtic and Viking languages. I am, however,very much for the change and evolution of spoken communication but I believe that there would be better ways of creating a plural form of words, as such, without always adding "es" at the end, especially if it makes the word ugly and difficult to pronounce. Now... knowing that America is, at the moment, a leading world power, we all know the people who inhabit this land can do what they would like with their language, but this website is called "UsingEnglish.com" and I think that we should stick to talking about the true English language. That being said, I do still enjoy American slang as well as their odd expressions and the new words the invent to precisely define the sub-category of an existing noun, such as "cookie".