RE: PS: Kudos (as used in When Farce Becomes Reality)

From: D
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 06:10:21 -0400
Subject: Re: PS: Kudos (as used in When Farce Becomes Reality)
To: hzlehrer@hotmail.com

Could it be that kudu can be singular and plural, following the example of "deer"?  Does kudo have a plural?  "kudoes"? as in tomato and potato.  My old-fashioned, back-breaking  "Webster's Third International..." in print.  lists "kudos" as both singular and plural, but if you want to be a peasant, I won't stop you.  P.S. the same dictionary defines "koodoo," "koudou," and "kudu," but does not give a plural for any of these variants.  That just proves how arbitrary even great dictionaries may be.  Either they don't know, or they don't care to tell us pheasants.

 

It seems that kudos, one of those words that sounds plural, is actually singular.  So perhaps  I should have used the singular "pleasantry"

Which just proves that when it comes to academic writing,

I belong to the peasantry.

HZL

7/22/15

RE: PS: Kudos (as used in When Farce Becomes Reality)

Since a classical education 

requires a knowledge of Latin and Greek

neither of which, to my consternation,

was offered to me at Public School  54

or Junior High School 40

 when a lad in the Bronx's south

such words to not come  easily unbidden to my mouth.

 I must therefore  rely on etymology as it's been writ 

by some Oxford or Cambridge (over) educated Brit,

who says, more or less:

Though "Judo" 

may be done by either  one or a collective,

"Kudo" must be  singularly corrective

and always needs an "S"

to avoid a linguistic mess

and after all, Webster's Noah

is not there any moah.

HZL

7/23