Hi,
> This has actually nothing to do with regular languages. It's just > computer lingo. The jargon of nerds, if you will. I doubt that. > As another example, one unix, several unices. And several boxes running > a unix version is often referred to as "boxen". It's nerd jargon if they know the standard plural and continue to use the non-standard term. I suspect that if you did a poll the overwhelming majority of those people would know perfectly well what the English plural of 'box' is, but continue to say 'boxen' for nerdy jargon reasons. Conversely I would guess that 0.00001% at most know the Latin plurals and the English plural and continue to say 'virii' for nerdy jargon reasons. It's not just computer nerds. I can't count the number of non-nerdy people who think the plural of 'status' is either 'stati' or 'statii'. -- Cheers, Bob
