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I am in love with the Web tonight, and with Google which brings me so much of it.
I was online earlier, reading about astronomy, and suddenly found myself wondering what the genitive of "lupus" is [1]. We have a Latin dictionary, but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
julian_tiger was sitting in my lap and I didn't want to disturb him. So I typed "genitive lupus" (without the quote marks) into the Google search bar. The first result was exactly what I wanted, telling me that the genitive is "lupi" and citing Wikipedia. Below that I was offered an assortment of astronomical sites talking about things in the constellation Lupus.
It's little surprise that a system that answers that quickly and accurately has "about 49,700" hits for "Gimli Manitoba" (with the quote marks; without them, "about 245,000," which I suspect include some people talking about Tolkien).
[1] Yes, I know, -us, -i. But not always: it might have been fourth declension or something else weird.
I was online earlier, reading about astronomy, and suddenly found myself wondering what the genitive of "lupus" is [1]. We have a Latin dictionary, but
julian_tiger was sitting in my lap and I didn't want to disturb him. So I typed "genitive lupus" (without the quote marks) into the Google search bar. The first result was exactly what I wanted, telling me that the genitive is "lupi" and citing Wikipedia. Below that I was offered an assortment of astronomical sites talking about things in the constellation Lupus.It's little surprise that a system that answers that quickly and accurately has "about 49,700" hits for "Gimli Manitoba" (with the quote marks; without them, "about 245,000," which I suspect include some people talking about Tolkien).
[1] Yes, I know, -us, -i. But not always: it might have been fourth declension or something else weird.