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The USA Today header is more chilling still: "Victims Expected Crash," a reference to the discovery--reported by all the papers--that many of the bodies were found wearing life vests.
It is not a word I use, but I recently heard a Canadian broadcaster use it, and that has set me to delving and grubbing in dictionaries and other reference books.
striptiz uotur striptease water, a curious reference to maladroit, foolish individuals; kretenozavur cretinosaurus; boiler one whose head is full of bubbling hot water; sifon siphon, one whose head is like an empty tube; bushón fuse, from French bouchon cork; diaria diarrhea; loko from Spanish loco; galosh as in galoshes; kashón crate, from Italian cassone; lainer ocean liner, a pun on the Bulgarian word lainó scum.
Comparisons with Anopheles demonstrate that dipteran miRNA genes evolve rapidly and although none of the reference set is absent from D. pseudoobscura , there may be examples that are specific to individual drosophilid species.
Fowler noted the problem favoring s 's but made no specific reference to the conversion of proper possessive nouns to adjectives; Strunk and White affirmed the propriety of s's , and Gowers, in The Complete Plain Words , prefers s's , a choice of some importance because his father, the British neurologist Sir William Richard Gowers (1845-1915), is remembered for his column, disease, fasciculus, sign, solution, syndrome, and tract by Dorland.