This page employs a stylesheet and is designed to be used with Netscape 4.7 or later. The official abbreviations of all current University of Tasmania awards are listed in the Rules of Awards. Australia Day, Good Friday, Show Day, Christmas Day, and the names of the weekdays Titles of publications capitalise the first letter of the first word and the first letter of all other words except 'a', 'the', prepositions and conjunctions, eg Davis RP, Open to Talent, University of Tasmania, 1990. In photo captions, name people from left to right whenever possible.
Some words give rise to endless debate.
Platypus is one of them. Those who argue for platypi are mistaken in that platypus is Greek, not Latin in its origin. The common sense plural is platypus. We have no problem with fish, deer, duiker, sheep and countless other singular plurals, so let's add another to them. Phrases tend to cause some problem.