>>>>OK, the rest follows without the explanation. Thanks. Still think it should be "opus magnum" though :-)
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>>>It is.
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>>I hear them say "Magnum Opus" on British high-brow programs
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>Ah, you mean whether the adjectiv goes before or after the noun? I think generally the adjective goes before, but don't know about the other way, whether it has any irregularity to it. I've actually never heard it in that order.

Interesting. When I learned Latin, myself some 30-odd years ago, it was noun - adj., as in:

"Pueri in herba longa sunt cum puellis pulchris".

Also, we were of the "waney weedy winchy" school of pronunciation. How about you?

- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.