The water-elephants, as the natives term the hippopotami, frequently came snorting near us, but fortunately did not touch our canoe. ❋ Various (N/A)
Although I do also tend to say "hippopotami": I hold that the pluralising rule -us - -i for words marked +classical is perfectly good English morphology, and I quite like the sound of other persons' teeth grinding. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The exotic animals such as hippopotami, elephants and rhinoceroses that were all part of the huge show going on each night would be easy to view from anywhere in the stadium. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Crocodiles and hippopotami — Reach Faraba – Loss of one of the soldiers — ❋ Unknown (2008)
Enter the Simbani Woods; precautions thereon, and sacrifice and prayers for success — Banks of the Gambia — Crocodiles and hippopotami — Reach ❋ Unknown (2008)
In the evening we started and came to before an island; we saw on shore a great quantity of hippopotami; on our approach they went into the water in such confusion, that they almost upset our canoe. ❋ Unknown (2008)
We departed early, and crossed Kirgout, a river full of hippopotami and alligators. ❋ Unknown (2008)
We could not sleep with the noise of the hippopotami, which came close to the bank and kept snorting and blowing all night. ❋ Unknown (2008)
His fans likely have yet to recover from watching him don that 200-pound Kevlar suit and saunter up to those unsuspecting hippopotami last Sunday on Undercover Hippo, but Dr. Brady Barr is at it again tonight, this time getting up close and personal with giant Komodo dragons. ❋ Unknown (2008)
We saw three hippopotami close to another of these islands. ❋ Unknown (2008)
That wild and crazy Dr. Brady Barr tries to get closer than any human being probably should to creatures that weigh two tons and have teeth up to a foot long in this special, which finds him in the heart of Zambia attempting to infiltrate the largest population of hippopotami on Earth. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I counted at one time thirteen of them ranged along shore, and three hippopotami. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Even before that, "In 2007 alone, we recorded the slaughter of 15 mountain gorillas and more than 20,000 antelopes," the minister said, adding that in the past decade the number of hippopotami had fallen from 30,000 to 1,000. ❋ Unknown (2008)
"To put things into perspective we explain to them that hippopotami are protected and yet they are more dangerous than giraffes and do more damage," Ousmane Zodi, another ASGN worker explained. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In other words, I believe there are no gods for the same reason I believe my living room is not filled with invisible miniature hippopotami. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)
On Valentine's Day, in the water sport the hippopotami. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Those melon bellies, those vast ripening thighs, those featherbeds of forearms, those buttocks placid and gross as hippopotami: ❋ Unknown (2007)
The [hippopotami] at [the zoo] were [fighting]. ❋ Mary Sue Jackson (2003)
