Re: Subject: Re: Singlular of "mouses" Was: Re: Negative ordinality

Quoting Caleb Hines <cph9fa@...>:

> > Garth Wallace wrote at 2003-12-17 15:53:48 (-0800)
> >  > Peter Bleackley wrote:
> >  > >
> >  > > By analogy with "oxen". Particularly applies to VAX machines, or
> >  > > VAXen.
> >  >
> >  > Also "unixen", meaning multiple varieties of UNIX. From the Jargon
> >  > File's entry on overgeneralization in geekspeak
> >  > <http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/overgeneralization.html>:
> > [snip Jargon]
> >  >
> >
> > But as that passage points out, "unixen" is rare;  the normal form is
> > "unices".
>
>
> My favorite computer-related plural is UNIX -> UNIcies! (Just like index ->
> indicies). I've never heard "Unixen" AFAIK.
Don't tell me anyone is actually using "indicies?

Or is it simply a mispelling for "indices", in which I assume your "UNIcies"
is simply a similar misspelling of the "Unices" others have mentioned in this
thread?

                                                         Andreas

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