Peter Bleackley wrote:
>
> Staving Jorg Rhiemeier:
>
> >I have heard the plural "meeces" for the latter at least once.
> >But don't ask me why.
>
> There was a cat-and-mouse cartoon (I don't remember what it was called),
> where the cat's phrase was "I hate meeces to pieces!"
The cat was Jinks. The mice were named Pixie and Dixie.
The cartoons were the creation of the Bill Hanna-Joe Barbara team.
> >And the plural of "box" (computer hardware) is "boxen".
>
> By analogy with "oxen". Particularly applies to VAX machines, or VAXen.
And the plural of mongoose is multigoose.
--Ph. D.