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

Gary Shannon scripsit:

> Ah, but "mouse" and "mouse" are two different words.
> "Mice" is the proper plural of "mouse", the animal,
> but the plural of "mouse", the computer hardware, is
> "mouses."  :)
Some make it "mouses", but the usual thing is either to avoid the plural
or to say "mice".  There are similar situations involving irregular plurals
used in unusual patterns:  you may have a sweet tooth and so may I, but it
would sound odd to say we had sweet teeth, for "teeth" is generally applied
only collectively, not distributively.

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