[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Multiple Linux'es (Was: Umm, I'm in need. ..)

[Kyle_Davenport@compusa.com]

Yeah.  Just wait till M$ comes out with its own version of linux.  Then there
will be multiple linyuchsen.

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Steve Baker <sjbaker1 at airmail.net> on 08/26/2000 01:04:12 PM

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Allen Flick wrote:
>
> Kyle_Davenport at compusa.com wrote:
>
> > heh, you're a lawyer; you ought to know the plural of "ix" is "ices".
Several
> > Linices.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
>
> I used to think "indices" was the only proper way to pluralize the
> word "index".  But, I was challenged one day & I looked up in old
> Webster Dictionary and low & behold, "indexes" is also listed as
> a proper pluralization of "index".
>
> Therefore, I would assume that Linuxes is just as proper as Linices.

There is a long history in the computer business of pluralizing words
that end in 'X' with 'en'.

Hence:

   Vax  -> Vaxen
   Unix -> Unixen

So - Linux -> Linuxen.

Check out the Jargon file for the origins and history of this strange
plural formation.

Personally, I don't think it's a word that you should pluralize - there
is only one Linux - but it has multiple copies, releases, versions, flavors
and distributions.

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