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

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!"

>And the plural of "box" (computer hardware) is "boxen".

By analogy with "oxen". Particularly applies to VAX machines, or VAXen.

Pete

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