...Prius? Prii? Is it Prii or Priuses? A Pod of Prius A Clutch of Prii A herd of Prius ????? :deadhorse:
So which one sholud we make ours....pride, clutch, herd, brood? I like a "Pod of Prii" Was parked on Sunday between two other Prius and this came up. I found a bunch more possibiliies for names here: Animal Groups
I like "pride." But it's pretentious to use foreign plurals for words that have been integrated into English. So I suggest "A pride of Priuses."
I prefer not to use either Priuses or Prii. I just prefer to use Prius as both singular and plural. I saw a lot of Prius on the road today. I drive a Prius. There were 8 Prius on the expressway last night. When a person says "the Prius has a hybrid drive system", they are not referring to just one Prius but all of them, however, "This Prius is the best colour, silver." refers to a single Prius. I think this applies to all car names. I think Priuses sounds childish and Prii is pretentious.
well, no one agrees with me on this... but i consider "Pri" to be a possesive... My Pri is SPM in color. or i took my Pri to Oregon last weekend. plural would be Priuses.... and a Prius is a car, so therefore it would be a "fleet of Priuses" unless of course, they were all my cars, then it would be "a fleet of my Pri?" hmm, ya well... now, even my spellchecker disagrees with me (actually quite frequently...hmm... need to work on that!!) it says "Priuses" should be "Prises" so obviously it has no faith in my ability to express myself
I contributed to one of Toyota's Open Road blogs with a discussion on the perils of genericized trademarks. The blog was called "The Plural of Prius" but it is no longer available on the Toyota site. Toyota owns Prius and uses the term to refer to their hybrid car (which we know and love). When a trademark comes into common usage, it ceases to be a trademark and the value of the mark is no longer owned by the company. If the term prius grows to mean any hybrid car, then GM or BMW could build a prius and Toyota would lose ownership of its trademark. Wikipedia has a good article on Genericized trademark which lists lots of examples of trademarks that were once owned and are now common, from aspirin to zipper. If a company wants to retain ownership of a trademark, which frequently has cost a lot of money to establish through advertising, they need to defend it's use. From the Wikipedia article: That's why you see phrases like "Kleenex brand tissue" or "M&M chocolate candies" where the trademark is used like an adjective to modify a generic noun. Google wants you to do a Googleâ„¢ Search, rather than google what you're after. So the upshot of all this is, we can call a plural of Prius anything we want, but Toyota wants us to call it a ________ of Prius hybrid cars.
