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On Tuesday 12 December 2006 15:38, Uwe Thiem wrote: |
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> Hi folks, |
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> this is for English native speakers (British English, American |
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> English and colonial English alike). |
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> I was looking up something in my Oxford dictionary. First, I had |
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> to make sure how they indicate irregular plurals. The first word |
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> that came to mind was mouse. Look what they write there apart |
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> from 1. the animal and 2. a timid person: |
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> 3. (plural mouses) a small hand-held device for controlling a |
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> cursor on a VDU screen. |
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> I have never seen anyone (except non-native speakers by mistake) |
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> use mouses as the plural for a computer mouse. Are the people of |
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> the Oxford dictionary nuts, or is this really correct and mice |
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> wrong in this case? |
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I think they are nuts. In my Concise Oxford Dictionary, eighth |
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edition 1990, the plural is mice. |
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Peter |
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