So while I was pasting my last post into wordpress, I did a quick spell check to make sure that everything was in order. Three words got the red underline of doom: esthetician, Meck, and vaginas. Um, excuse me? Vaginas is wrong? I right-clicked the word and the first suggested spelling was Vaginae. That’s right. Vaginae. You best believe I googled that shit.
Sure enough, according to Meriam Webster’s online dictionary, the plural of vagina can be either vaginas or vaginae. Who would have guessed that before the bastardization of our language that occured because of texting and the interwebs, the proper plural form of vagina was vaginae? Those were simpler times, my friends.
I just thought I’d share this information in case you are ever in a conversation, or writing a blog post, that requires you to use the plural form of vagina. It’s more likely to happen than you might think. And now that you do know, you can impress your friends or readers with your grasp of the English language (as well as give them all a fun fact to share at parties). And btw, it’s pronounced vaginie. Seriously.
Now that that’s out of the way, kuwtb.com will become a vaginae free zone. For at least a week anyway.
I love Merriam-Webster’s pronunciation audio! I couldn’t help but start laughing when I clicked the link. How sad am I…
Must be Latin.
Coworkers are wondering why I just busted out laughing. Unfortunately, I will not be sharing this awesome fact with them because this may set the stage for Vagina Monologues…