30 Mar
2004
30 Mar
'04
10:26 a.m.
In article <c4alki$cnj$1@sea.gmane.org>, "Edward Diener" <eddielee@tropicsoft.com> 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 -- If this message helped you, consider buying an item from my wish list: <http://web.meeroh.org/wishlist>