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From: dmm@calmasd.UUCP (David M. MacMillan)
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Subject: Re: Welcome!
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Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 11:35:57 EDT
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>> Some of here are very interested in using Amigas (Amigi?) as laboratory
>
>Amiga is Spanish ("friend", feminine).  Plural is amigas.

     Even if "amiga" were Latin, it would be first declension, thus
its nominative plural would be "amigae" (other examples of first
declension nouns used in English might include "larva" (nom. plur.
"larvae").  Only second declension nouns such as "alumnus" form
the nom. plural with "i" (alumni).  
     However, since amiga is Spanish, and doubtless chosen by the
manufacturer's marketing dept. to mean "friend", the Spanish plural
must be taken to be correct.  As it corresponds to the English
plural, this shouldn't be so difficult.

     Don't you love it when people clutter up a perfectly useful
technical newsgroup with arcane philological details.

                           David M. MacMillan

PAX VOBISCUM, AMIGA.   (which, here, is in the Vocative case)