Re: ixes versus ices RE: Appendixes vs. Annexes

Subject: Re: ixes versus ices RE: Appendixes vs. Annexes
From: Sandy Harris <pashley -at- storm -dot- ca>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 09:34:05 -0400


Sean Brierley wrote:

> It's whatever you want it to be, just be consistent. Search the
> archives, this has been done before.

I'd use appendices, but then I'm fairly conservative in some
areas. I also regularly use "methinks", I usually treat "data"
as the plural of "datum" rather than as a non-count noun, and
so on.

For a discussion of strange plurals like "Unices" and "VAXen"
in hacker slang:
http://tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/Overgeneralization.html


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