The plural of Kleenex should be Kleenices.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I call them “tissues.” Calling all tissue Kleenex is like my mom calling all video games Nintendo.

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  • kirkoman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    FWIW, I just learned that escalator and kerosene started as trademarked brand names.

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    • Mr_Fish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      So did Frisbee

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    insisting on calling all tissues kleenex is how the company loses the rights to the name

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• SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Kleenex is the name of the brand, not the tissues

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  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Brands are nouns and can (and are) thus genericized.

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• tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Kleenpodes!

  Yes, I know its unrelated. I’m just trying to force in the whole octopi problem.

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• deur@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  According to the internet the -ex to -ices is a dead suffix for specifically latin borrowed words

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  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    is a dead suffix

    sure, if you go with that attitude!

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• runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Kleenussies

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• lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Furthermore, it should be pronounced like it was a Greek philosopher.

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  • Plasma@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Κληνέξής

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• TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Obviously pronounces “Clean-eh-keys” right?

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  • Botzo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    As a crazy person that took 5 semesters of Latin, absolutely, but it’s a battle in which I’ve admitted defeat, much like “as per.”

    If English made any sense, “matrices” would be the normal plural and pronounced with the italianized soft c. But then “indexes” is over there being irksome.

    I think the correct plural here is simpler: a zero plural, i.e Kleenex. Probably because we just elide the entire word “tissues.”

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• JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Kleeni (long i)

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  • kirkoman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think that would be the plural of Kleenus.

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    [kliːniː]

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• leauxhigh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I thought Kleenex was the plural. I use one Kleeni at a time.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You must struggle with nouns like ‘deer’ and ‘mail’.

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• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Kleeneges.

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  rex -> reges

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  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    spoiler

    regex → regeges?

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    • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Tap for spoiler

      Lateges, googolpleges, apeges, indeges, Wesseges and Susseges, the two seges. Latin is super easy.

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• otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What other word follows this?

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  • kirkoman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    index -> indices matrix -> matrices codex -> codices appendix -> appendices

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    • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ah, I forgot about index and didn’t know about indices.

      I’ll continue to use the plural “tissues”, though! Lol

      It’s funny to me to see someone simultaneously prescriptively linguistic enough to use a Latin pluralization but not pedantic enough to use the proper non-genericized term for tissues, haha

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• spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In my broken mind, it has been for years!

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• YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What should the plural of Lego be?

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  • kirkoman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Lesgo?

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