Bob Walkden wrote: > Personally I think the plural should be LXs - not LXes or LX's
Elsewhere I commented that "LXes" looks wrong to me and "LXen" doesn't. Figured I should amend that to say that "LXs" also doesn't look wrong to me, for the same reason you gave (that "LX", whether it is one or not, _looks_ like an abbreviation). > Misguided > people who think the plural of 'index' is 'indices' might prefer to call > their LXs 'Lices'. "Misguided"? "Indices" *is* correct for more than one index. (So is "indexes".) My _Webster's_ doesn't distinguish between the two, but I've noticed that there does seem to be some gradual divergence of the two, at least in the US, where in some contexts (multiple look-things-up tables in a book) "indices" sounds old and stuffy, but in others (multiple statistical indicators) "indexes" sounds wrong. I don't think usage has diverged quite far enough for either of those to _be_ wrong, but I get the impression that there's a slow movement in that direction. -- Glenn PS: For real fun, there's the problem of what to say when you have more than one mongoose. "Mongeese" is tempting, but so is "polygoose". :-P