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'Media' is also plural - the singular is 'medium'.
And the rarely-seen plural of 'forum' is 'fora', although I think it's too late for that one. 'Forums' has become the accepted plural, just as 'indexes' has replaced 'indices'.
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Not in Mineralogy.
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I still use 'indices'. And 'appendices'.
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And vortices and vertices.
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A Google search for 'indexes' gets 103 million hits. A search for 'indices' gets 22.4 million. Y'all are part of a dwindling minority.
Yeah, I use "indices" etc. and indexes doesn't sound quite right to me. I think that it's more common for those who encounter the word in their work.
I'd imagine that could be more for the financial, technical or scientific realm etc.. and that people that use indices on a daily basis, since that's the kind of people I hear say "indices" (though I could be wrong, maybe indexes is has become more common there too).
With each passing day (and the corresponding ream of new postings here on C-D), I find that I'm getting angrier and angrier at people who use "to" when they ought to be using "too."
Yeah, I use "indices" etc. and indexes doesn't sound quite right to me. I think that it's more common for those who encounter the word in their work.
I'd imagine that could be more for the financial, technical or scientific realm etc.. and that people that use indices on a daily basis, since that's the kind of people I hear say "indices" (though I could be wrong, maybe indexes is has become more common there too).
I work in electronic document archiving, where we keep index information about each document. We use "indexes" on a daily basis. When I started here, I asked about using "indices", and was told that they had decided to standardize on "indexes" because it was easier to understand.
I work in electronic document archiving, where we keep index information about each document. We use "indexes" on a daily basis. When I started here, I asked about using "indices", and was told that they had decided to standardize on "indexes" because it was easier to understand.
That's interesting. So it's not the same for every field/occupation perhaps.
For some reason, I get the feeling that "indices" retains the original most strongly in the sciences (perhaps in the more human-oriented fields, usage would be brought in line with what is more popular/common because there is more dealing with the public, but that's just a guess). I think I see indices being used a lot in measures for environmental studies such as water quality. Someone on this thread mentioned mineralogy, and while I don't know anything about mineralogy, that also seems to fit the idea that its more for physical objects/materials.
Anyone else. I wonder what form people in other such fields as finance (stock market indexes or stock market indices?) or the social/health/policy fields (eg. indexes/indices of say, well-being or development etc.) use or prefer as most common?
That's interesting. So it's not the same for every field/occupation perhaps.
For some reason, I get the feeling that "indices" retains the original most strongly in the sciences (perhaps in the more human-oriented fields, usage would be brought in line with what is more popular/common because there is more dealing with the public, but that's just a guess). I think I see indices being used a lot in measures for environmental studies such as water quality. Someone on this thread mentioned mineralogy, and while I don't know anything about mineralogy, that also seems to fit the idea that its more for physical objects/materials.
Anyone else. I wonder what form people in other such fields as finance (stock market indexes or stock market indices?) or the social/health/policy fields (eg. indexes/indices of say, well-being or development etc.) use or prefer as most common?
In mineralolgy, a unique optical characteristic for each mineral is how light transmits through it, referred to as its RI or Refractive Index, plural being refractive indicies.
I just saw this interesting construction in another forum, which is grammatically correct, but a logical conundrum:
St. Louis I have noticed is usually pronounced correctly less than half of the time.
Which I guess means that less than half the time, it is pronounced correctly less than half the time. Or, usually it is not usually pronounced correctly.
I've just read a post containing the word "nutrious" instead of "nutritious".
typos are forgivable.
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...the closing of the shop was the death nail for the center...
As in, "the last nail in the coffin"?
I'll be even those who are irked by others' errors have made some of their own at some time or other.
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