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. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users