[plug] OT: word splitting

[John Breen]

my 2c worth, for the pedants :)

mouse - mice, EXCEPT in computing, where the correct plural is mouses.

i don't know why, but apparently it's true.

cheers,

jb

On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 21:04, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 February 2002 12:02, Mike Holland wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Wayne Vovil wrote:
> >> So you would say criterions instead of criteria :-)
> 
> sayed instead of said
> 
> > :) I never said English was logical. Commonly used irregular nouns
> > are excepted. But seriously, who says "fora"?
> 
> Yanks pretending to read stuff out phonetically.
> 
> Cheers; Leon
> 
>