Re: "role" vs. "r\^ole"

Some examples in support of what Toby Bartels <toby+spam@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

... there's a long history in English, when adopting a foreign noun, of adopting the foreign plural as well ...

Examples: alumni and alumnae, not alumnuses; simplices, not simplexes; vertices, not vertexes; phenomena, not phenomenons; data, not datums. [Not that there aren't counterexamples, too.] -- Fred