At least among my college buddies, we called the numerous visitors to these
Hawaiian Islands as "tourii". (Kind of a stretch, I know....)

At 12:08 PM 3/6/2004 -0500, Andrew Stiller wrote:
>>
>>Clearly there are words in which the foreign-derived plural has 
>>become well-established in English (eg, "theses").
>>
>>mdl
>>
>
>I have always enjoyed thinking that a box of kleenex contains 
>numerous kleenices.
>
>-- 
>Andrew Stiller
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