From: cujo@petitmorte.net   
      
   mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) wrote in   
   news:K2mdnaO-rLZfT9v0nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@giganews.com:   
      
   >> WillDockery wrote:   
   >> And, as mentioned earlier, one of the greatest Rolling Stones albums,   
   >> released in the Summer of 1975 at the height of my Stones fandom, was   
   >> "Metamorphosis":   
   >>   
   >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphosis_(Rolling_Stones_album)   
   >>   
   >> So I can see how the confusion comes in, with so many relatively   
   >> recent works using that spelling for a title.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > OMFG! It isn't a matter of spelling, Donkey.  One is the singular   
   > form, the other is the plural.   
   >   
   > One metamorphosis, two metamorphoses.   
   >   
   > Ovid wrote about numerous metamorphoses, hence the plural form.   
      
   If you think this is bad, you ought to see his "poetry".   
      
   You have?   
      
   My sympathies.   
      
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