February 22, 2011
The Plural of Prius is Prii, Decides Toyota!
You might've seen some ads asking "What is the plural of Prius?" like I did when surfing the web. This was because Toyota was collecting votes to decide on the official plural of Prius. After 1.8 million votes were received, either for Prius, Priuses, Prii, Prium, and Prien. And the winner was... (drum roll here...) Prii! Prii received a good 25% of the votes. The second place word was Prius, which 24% of voters decided on. Personally, it seems like people are making too big of a deal out of this. Jay Schwartz of Dictionary.com was at the winning word announcement to inform guests that Dictionary.com would update the plural of "Prius".