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Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–).  The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.  1993.
 
sarcophagus
 
 
The foreign plural sarcophagi, pronounced sahr-KAH-fuh-gee, sahr-KAH-fuh-gei, or (rarely) sahr-KAH-fuh-jee, still occurs, especially in technical use, but the regular plural, sarcophoguses (always with a hard g), is increasingly common in Standard English.  1
 
 
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