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