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pkulak
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Modern Walkmans
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.
jll29
3 days ago
[–]
mouse => mice
corpus => corpora
thesaurus => thesauri
Emacs => Emacsen
Unix => Unices
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