What do you call it if you have two of them?

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    lamontcranston Umbra Tenet

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    Seriously, what's the correct term?

    Priuses?
    Prii?
    Prius's?
    Priuseseseseses?

    It's like the old joke about the mongoose.

    As an old Latin scholar, I'm wonder if the plural of Prius should be Secundus.

    So what is it? Sorry if this has been asked about a bo-zillion times but I did search for "plural" and got no results.
    lamontcranston, Aug 3, 2009
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    I read:

    The Toyota executive in charge of the initial Prius rollout was asked how his people refer to more than one Prius. His response was "Prius".

    They use the same word for both. And since they named the vehicle, they are the ones that get the official say...
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    lamontcranston Umbra Tenet

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    Thanks! From now on, that's what I'll use.
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    They are like sheep. :) sort of
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    It's Prii.
    At least, that's what we've used as the collective noun around here for years.
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    A backup ! A spare, distributed load, redundant drive. Oh, car...Prii with two Eyes.
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    pair-o-prius
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    prioki New Member

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    I call it Lucky. ;-)
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    patsparks An Aussie perspective

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    Fleet of Prius.
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    A joke, from before the internet:

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    What do you call it if you have more than one of them?

    A Wegman's parking lot.

    (Thanks, I'm here all week. Try the veal.)
    jchilton, Aug 5, 2009
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