From: Peter Stephenson <pws@pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk>
To: Zsh workers <zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk>
Subject: Re: complist bug and PATCH: spelling
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:24:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E120BCq-0005sG-00.1999-12-20-22-23-04@mail3.svr.pol.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Oliver Kiddle"'s message of "Fri, 17 Dec 1999 13:47:26 GMT." <385A3EEE.15917530@u.genie.co.uk>
Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> My second, unrelated point is that the plural of index is indices, not
> indexes.
Only for in the mathematical sense. Compilers of indexes (for books) are
quite particular that the plural is regular in that case, unlike the
English language in any *@!!* case.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk>
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1999-12-17 13:47 Oliver Kiddle
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