Plural of "Grand Poobah"

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>>>>> "Tyler" == Tyler Nally <tnally@iquest.net> writes:

    Tyler> Grand Poobus, Grand Pooba, Grand Poobi, Grand Poobis, Grand
    Tyler> Poobos, Grand Poobo, Grand Pooblus, Grand Poobe, Grand
    Tyler> Poobu, Grand Poobes, Grand Pooblu, Grand Poobla, Grand
    Tyler> Kahuna Pooba, Grand Kahuna Poobi, Grand Kahuna Poobos,
    Tyler> Grand Kahuna Poobu, etc.

    Tyler> Just like someone can conjugate "I am" (I am, you are,
    Tyler> he/she/it is, We are, they are, they are (plural)), I
    Tyler> wonder if anyone has ever tried to conjugate "Grand
    Tyler> Poobah".

Sorry, Bro. Tyler, but even my 15 year old daughter, Krystl, knows
enough Latin to flunk you on that one!  (In fact, she just made Latin
honors this semister.  Go girl!)  Poobah is a noun, not a verb.  You
conjugate verbs, but you decline nouns.  In Latin, there are 5
declensions of nouns.  Every noun belongs to one and only one of those 
declensions.

    Tyler> Grand Poobah am (singular personal) Grand Poobah are
    Tyler> (singular other) Grand Poobah is (singular pronoun) Grand
    Tyler> Poobus are (group of GP's) Grand Poobus are (plural other)
    Tyler> Grand Poobus are (plural other other)

What you have done here is conjugate the verb "to be".  I like the way 
God did it to Moses, "I am that I am."

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