From: pjr@example.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-20, Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   If you think this is bad, you ought to see his vanity-press "book".   
      
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   PJR :-)   
      
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