Re: Singlular of "mouses" Was: Re: Negative ordinality
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 18, 2003, 0:30 |
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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.
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> 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".
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