>NB to the purists among you who would criticize my use of 'indexes' instead of 'indices', I point out that 'indexes' is more in the vernacular, understandable and certainly a lot easier to pronounce. I also point out the following:
While I personally use "indices", I looked it up in the dictionary - it seems that both "indices" and "indexes" is valid.
>Plural of mouse: mice
>Plural of house: hice?
Yes, English is quite irregular.
"Sally Polly was a teacher who taught.
and her brother was a preacher who praught,
though his enemies called him a screacher who scraught."
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
