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   Message 43,899 of 45,517   
   Cujo DeSockpuppet to Peter J Ross   
   Re: "Metamorphesis"-Ovid   
   20 Dec 25 19:21:43   
   
   From: cujo@petitmorte.net   
      
   Peter J Ross  wrote in   
   news:mqoatlFa2e2U15@mid.individual.net:   
      
   > On 2025-12-20, Cujo DeSockpuppet  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Peter J Ross  wrote in news:mqoa79Fa2e2U12   
   >> @mid.individual.net:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2025-12-20, Cujo DeSockpuppet  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> 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".   
   >>> If you think this is bad, you ought to see his "living room".   
   >> If you think this is bad, you ought to see his decaying toofers.   
   > If you think this is bad, you ought to see his Zah-rooow performance.   
   If you think this is bad, you ought to see his Drama Queen act.   
      
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