Talk:glandes
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In Latin, yes. But in English? SemperBlotto 09:27, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
- Ofcourse? English uses latin plurals all the time; antennae, faunae, matrices, indices... --17:15, 16 March 2007 (UTC) —This unsigned comment was added by BiT (talk • contribs).
- Well, it's not common, but there are about eight b.g.c. cites of English use in this limited search --Enginear 18:41, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
- I think the main reason it's rare is that the plural of "glans" is rare. I can't find any uses of glanses, and only about as many uses of plural glans (in the relevant sense) as I can of plural glandes (in the relevant sense). Unless there's some other plural I'm not thinking to check, it seems that glans mostly exists in the singular. —RuakhTALK 19:44, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, I agree (though I found one b.g.c. instance of glanses, probably in the relevant sense, using similar criteria to the search which produced eight glandes). So, surprisingly, glandes seems to be the prefered plural -- maybe because it is mainly scientific use. --Enginear 23:11, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm striking this now, as it's been cited for over almost a month without comment. —RuakhTALK 18:20, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
RFV passed. DAVilla 19:10, 11 April 2007 (UTC)