Mathias Dahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> it might interest people in this group that "emacs" is defined in >> the new edition of the Collins English Dictionary (7th edition). >> The dictionary gives the plural as "emacsen", and it is defined as >> follows: "a powerful computer program used for creating and editing >> text, functioning primarily through keyboard commands". > > [off-topic] > > I am a native Swedish-speaker and wonder about these plurals ending in > -en. I have seen "emacsen" and "boxen", and to me they look "ugly" > (not offence intended), cannot explain why. Does not sound right at > all to me. Is there any "old" words that use this too or is this some > modern "thing"?
Oxen, Children, Bretheren. See: http://www.snvt.hum.uva.nl/Taalunieversum/Web/SIBData/resources/grammar/010.htm Nic _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
