Dear Frank,
Apart from what all nationalities say about
the rules in their native tongues,
simply looking up into the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
gives us the inflection for plural as '-s',
so 'allochthons' should be the correct usage.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/allochthon
Regards,
Tzvetan Dilov
--- On Thu, 4/14/11, Peel, Frank FJ <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Peel, Frank FJ <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Structural semantics(plural pedantry)
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> Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011, 8:56 AM
> Can a greek grammar guru advise
> me - the plural of phenomenon is phenomena - what is the
> correct plural of allochthon (is it allochtha?) I'm writing
> about stacked allochthonous salt sheets.
> Thanks
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