Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 25, 1960
January 24, 1960
January 26, 1960
Transcript:
Charlie Brown and Linus walk to school. Linus says, "Rats! I forgot the egg shells!"<br> <br> Linus says, "Miss Othmar wanted us to bring some egg shells to school today . . . We were going to make iglii . . ."<br> <br> ; Charlie Brown asks, "Igli?" Linus answers, "That's plural, Charlie Brown . . ."<br> <br> Linus says, "One igloo . . . two igli!"<br> <br>
weatherford.joe Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Uh-oh… the eggshells storyline.
Stormwyrm over 7 years ago
I can’t think of any linguistic construction that would produce that plural form. Most irregular plurals that take the -i suffix end in -us and come from Latin roots, like radius → radii, alumnus → alumni, fungus → fungi. Igloo is neither a Latin root nor does it even end in -us, so it should just be a regular plural by any rule.
MegaCass over 6 years ago
First of all, the plural is “iglee”
yow4zip Premium Member almost 5 years ago
An eggloo.
FrostbiteFalls about 1 year ago
So much for “Who’s Miss Othmar?”