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From: on2005_at_[hidden]
Date: 2004-03-29 22:47:27
very funny indeed.
http://www.djindexes.com/jsp/index.jsp
Quoting Edward Diener <eddielee_at_[hidden]>:
> David B. Held wrote:
> >
> > Indexes: According to the American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth
> > Edition, as channeled by www.dictionary.com, "indexes" is
> > preferred to "indices".
>
> 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.
>
>
>
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