I promise to leave this thread alone after this post... Honest :)

"Facsimiles" is already a plural and "fax" is an abbreviation of
"facsimile". 

The plural of "facsimile" is thus "facsimiles" and the plural of "fax"
is "faxes". Where the analogy with ox and oxen sprang from, I have no
clue :)

neil

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So would the correct Latin be viri? We used to sometimes refer to more
than one VAX as VAXen using the ox/oxen model. Multiple facsimiles would
then be faxen.

Wook

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On 4/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Ditto viruses and virii. ...
>
Being a bit of a pedant, I have to point out that virii is neither good
English, nor good Latin:

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/virii.html


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