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Personally, I don’t like non-standard plurals and take the opportunity of a new word not to carry the mistake through. I prefer “mouses” as well, for the plural of a computer mouse.




mouse => mice

corpus => corpora

thesaurus => thesauri

Emacs => Emacsen

Unix => Unices




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