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From: Miro Jurisic (macdev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-30 05:26:03
In article <c4alki$cnj$1_at_[hidden]>,
"Edward Diener" <eddielee_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> My dictionary mentions both, but I have never heard an educated person in my
> life use the word "indexes" as a plural for index rather than the word
> "indices". And I don't particularly care what the Google hit rates are since
> a great many people are poorly educated.
I always thought that indexes are in a book and indices are in a sequence.
m-w.com agrees with that (as well as mentioning additional meanings of the word).
meeroh
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