@slaughtermouse@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca • 7 months agoWhy isn't it "multiple scleroses"?message-square6fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10
arrow-up116arrow-down1message-squareWhy isn't it "multiple scleroses"?@slaughtermouse@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca • 7 months agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-square@juliebean@lemm.eelinkfedilink2•7 months agoi think they know that. if you pluralized ‘sclerosis’, you’d expect to get ‘scleroses’. just like pluralizing ‘thrombosis’ gets you ‘thromboses’.
minus-squareEm Adespotonlinkfedilink1•7 months agoScleroses would translate as “hardening diseases” though. There’s only one disease.
i think they know that. if you pluralized ‘sclerosis’, you’d expect to get ‘scleroses’. just like pluralizing ‘thrombosis’ gets you ‘thromboses’.
The disease isn’t a plural. Which i already said.
Scleroses would translate as “hardening diseases” though. There’s only one disease.