A multitude of the animal called WALRUS

[PurpleNurple]

Yet again, I need your help.

I was having a discussion with a friend and we don't agree on the plural form of walrus. I know they are super cute and cuddly and look especially dapper with a bow tie, but say you had 4 or 5 at your house and they are your pets and you do fun activities with them, like bowling. You tell some friends about your latest bowling adventure. Would you say "My Walri can bowl" or "My Walruses can bowl"?

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*That's a Walrus bowling ball**. They need big holes for their fin things.



**It's a fact. Don't bother looking it up.

 

[midget31394]

I wouldn't say either, I would say "My walrus'" can bowl, but thats closer to the second one so...

~M

 

[Dayman]

the actual plural form of walrus is walruses. however many people think that it should be walri and so they started a petition to get it changed. however as of yet it's officially still walruses.

 

[agent86]

WAL-RUS-ES. Don't make me come over there.

My multitude of WALRUSES will mess. you. UP.

(That one on the left is actually RESPAWN)

That one in the center's like, yo, you be trippin dawg? We ain't walri, we be WALRUSES
WALRUSES!

 

[RESPAWN]

I think that's the Walrus what stole my bucket!

 

[Icarus]

Aw come on, it's OBVIOUSLY Walri. It's a much more fun word

 

[Dryft]

Walri. F.T.W.

 

[Dayman]

it may be fun, but as of right now doesn't change the fact it's still walruses

 

[Icarus]

http://www.petitiononline.com/WALRI/petition.html


SIGN IT!!!!!

 

[RESPAWN]

http://www.petitiononline.com/walri/petition.html


sign it!!!!!

now!

 

[PurpleNurple]

it may be fun, but as of right now doesn't change the fact it's still walruses

I didn't say what is "proper", I said what do you say. I've never been one for proper. I'm a revolutionary.

 

[RESPAWN]

I didn't say what is "proper", I said what do you say. I've never been one for proper. I'm a revolutionary.

*cough*Grocery*cough*

 

[CheeseGamer]

Aw come on, it's OBVIOUSLY Walri. It's a much more fun word

Walri sounds like fungi.

Walruses should not have a name like fungi do, because fungi are gross. Walruses are awesome. Hence, walruses should be walruses, not walri.

But that word... is funner*!

*you know funner is totally a word.

 

[agent86]

Clearly, if less than 100 people on the internet agree, it must be walri.

NOT. GIVE ME WALRUSES OR GIVE ME DEATH!

OK, maybe not death.

GIVE ME WALRUSES OR DON'T, SEE IF I CARE. REALLY. I'M NOT THAT EMPHATIC ABOUT IT.

 

[CheeseGamer]

Clearly, if less than 100 people on the internet agree, it must be walri.

NOT. GIVE ME WALRUSES OR GIVE ME DEATH!

OK, maybe not death.

GIVE ME WALRUSES OR DON'T, SEE IF I CARE. REALLY. I'M NOT THAT EMPHATIC ABOUT IT.

^This!

 

[PeterGriffin]

My walri can bowl. is the correct phrase

 

[eachdraidh]

Intellectual explanation
Speaking clearly for the lingustical point of view it really could be either. I would personally linger more in the area of walruses due to the germanic nature of the english language. Whereas Walri is latin or a romance language. That said, if it was the plural in a romance language such as French or Spanish then I would consider it to be walri. Heh, that's what I'm going to school for btw.

Aesthetic
My attachment aesthetically would be walri. It's easier to say and so much more fun. My artistic side usually wins out on such decisions primarily because language is simply ideas attached to symbols to give a mass understood meaning. I choose WALRI!!!

 

[Captain Ashton]

I wouldn't say either, I would say "My walrus'" can bowl, but thats closer to the second one so...

~M

My thoughts exactly.

 

[Vandall]

My walruses can't bowl = (
They can play freeze tag though!

 

[Beta]

its obviously Walri... or Walrus

In context:
I just bought a multitude of Walri
I just Bought a multitude of Walrus.

both sound right, but walruses sounds meh