{"id":154,"date":"2002-03-10T13:49:07","date_gmt":"2002-03-10T21:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=154"},"modified":"2004-10-19T14:02:06","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T22:02:06","slug":"there-can-be-only-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"there can be only one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the Latin plural of <i>Elvis<\/i>?<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve just <a href=\"http:\/\/oakhaus.blogspot.com\/2002_03_03_oakhaus_archive.html#10558911\">seen<\/a> <i>Elvii<\/i>, which is clearly wrong (the singular would then be <i>Elvius<\/i>).<br \/>\nThe most obvious candidate is <i>Elves<\/i>, but of course one cannot count on one&#8217;s readers to pronounce it with two syllables.<br \/>\nOn another hand, maybe it&#8217;s a consonantal stem, with a plural such as <i>Elvires, Elvites<\/i> or <i>Elvides<\/i>.  The existence of the feminine form <i>Elvira<\/i> (no pun intended) suggests the first of these.<br \/>\n(In each of these the last \/e\/ is long.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the Latin plural of Elvis? I&#8217;ve just seen Elvii, which is clearly wrong (the singular would then be Elvius). The most obvious candidate is Elves, but of course one cannot count on one&#8217;s readers to pronounce it with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=154\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}