On 1 Feb 2014, at 10:59am, RSmith <rsm...@rsweb.co.za> wrote:

> The plural of Index is always "Indices", never "Indexes".

I started with 'indices' when posting to this list but I found that some of the 
many foreign readers of this list apparently missed my meaning.  It's easy for 
someone struggling with English to know that 'indexes' is a plural of 'index' 
but harder with the word 'indices', especially with the pronunciation of 'c' 
being ambiguous.  So now days I often use 'indexes'.

It also means I can write things like "Look through your TABLEs, VIEWs and 
INDEXes and see whether any ...".

I consider 'indexes' a technical word, not the one I'd use for nontechnical 
writing.  Just like us Brits write 'hard disk' but use 'disc' for everything 
else, including 'compact disc'.

But over all, English is an acquisitive (unlike German) evolving (unlike 
French) language.  So how about we give it two hundred, two hundred and fifty 
years, and see what happens ?

Simon.
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