From: pjr@example.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-20, HarryLime    
   wrote:   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   In fact, two transformations would be dual, not plural, so the word   
   would probably be "metamorphÅ   
   sÄ“". Some Latin authors reproduce the Greek   
   dual when transliterating, but I can't reember if Ovid is one of them.   
      
   Note that the long "Å   
   " in all forms requires the penult to be stressed   
   in the Latin transliteration, not the antepenult as is common in   
   English.   
      
   > Ovid wrote about numerous metamorphoses, hence the plural form.   
      
   But the transformation of a viable human embryo into a Dreckster was too   
   bizarre for even Ovid to include.   
      
   --   
   PJR :-)   
      
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