Talk:Nautilus/@comment-217.228.110.170-20121112101121/@comment-130.234.181.219-20121116134241

Nautili is technically kinda wrong, since nautilus is not a real Latin word. Then again you have people saying viri or virii instead of viruses, so it's not even close to one of the worse common cases of pseudolatin. I recommend against ever using Latin style plurals, since it's honestly a pretty stupid language convention and the chance of getting it wrong through hypercorrection is very high.

Also it's common and entirely acceptable in English to do the plural as ___s' instead of ___s's if the word ends with the letter s. This is one of those things that depends who you ask, where they're from and how old they are, so don't take it as written in stone if someone tries to correct you.