On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:38:07 +0300, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks,
this is for English native speakers (British English, American English
and
colonial English alike).
I was looking up something in my Oxford dictionary. First, I had to make
sure
how they indicate irregular plurals. The first word that came to mind was
mouse. Look what they write there apart from 1. the animal and 2. a timid
person:
3. (plural mouses) a small hand-held device for controlling a cursor on
a VDU
screen.
I have never seen anyone (except non-native speakers by mistake) use
mouses as
the plural for a computer mouse. Are the people of the Oxford dictionary
nuts, or is this really correct and mice wrong in this case?
Uwe
Not being a native speaker, I tried "mouses" in MS Word, and it insisted
on "mice". However, http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxmouses.html
insists that MS thinks "mouses" are correct. Another example of undecided
MS, right?
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Andrei Gerasimenko
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