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On Tuesday 12 December 2006 17:38, Uwe Thiem wrote: |
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> 3. (plural mouses) a small hand-held device for controlling a cursor |
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> on a VDU screen. |
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> I have never seen anyone (except non-native speakers by mistake) use |
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> mouses as the plural for a computer mouse. Are the people of the |
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> Oxford dictionary nuts, or is this really correct and mice wrong in |
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> this case? |
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I have always called them mouses since a friend once found the same |
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reference in the Oxford. |
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Mice are two or more furry rodents that eat cheese and make ladies |
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squeal. |
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But I'm considered extremely odd in most things so I wouldn't be |
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surprised if I was just bucking the trend on this as well :-) |
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alan |
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