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[moominmolly]

Deadlifts rock. I did a big fat set of 20 last night, just to see what weight I should be at, and my legs just didn't care. My erectors spinae did, though. (SSC: how on earth does one pluralize an annoying noun like "erector spinae"? also, "biceps" and "quadriceps"? presumably, those plurals are just "biceps" and "quadriceps"...)

I recovered fully yesterday from the weird joylessness of the previous night. Tuesday night, just before going to bed, I had the peculiar experience of knowing that I *should* be happy but finding myself unable to be anything but bummed. David and I then started joshing around and I was laughing big physical laughs, but even the laughs were joyless. That sucked! I'm better now.

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[justinjs.livejournal.com]

You apparently already know how to pluralize such an annoying noun. :-)

Glad to hear that you're feeling happier.

[educatedidiot.livejournal.com]

Isn't spinae already plural? Seems like the singular form would be something like "spinatus." I'll have to ask my brother.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Nope, it's genitive singular ("erector of the spine"; you only have one). This looks just like the nominative plural for most Latin nouns. The plural of erector is erectores; erectors is a reasonable anglicisation.

The proper Latin plural of biceps is bicipites, but I've never seen this in English. Oh, I don't doubt that you'll see it in works from a bygone era when all doctors actually studied Latin, but I can't imagine anyone except Oxford snobs using it today. For most English speakers, the plural is identical to the singular, which is the source of the new singular form bicep.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Yay! I hoped you'd come to my rescue.

I used "bicep", casually flinging it about, until I found myself saying "quadricep" and realized how wrong it felt. Now it's tainted for me. I'm happy to keep using biceps/biceps, though.