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From: rigney@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: A Tale of Two Plurals - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 24-Dec-83 22:41:44 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 24 22:41:44 1983
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uokvax!rigney    Dec 22 01:33:00 1983

/***** uokvax:net.columbia / fortune!rpw3 /  9:22 pm  Dec 19, 1983 */
i deli-bur-ate-ly uses sometime this hear 'stroph mark (') 'tween
made up words like RAM's an' ROM's 'cause it jes' don' look rite
without 'em sometimes, y'here?	But i likes to lern.. so tell me...
wha's a plural of:

	O/S ?
	TV ?
	LOX ?
	EVA ?
	UNIX ?
	MOS ?
	VAX ?
	"Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!" [The King...]
/* ---------- */

Very well.  I suggest:-)

	1. O/S	   O/S/COPY=2 (or however many you have)
	2. TV	   TVs	   (TV is unimaginative)
	3. LOX	   LOX	   (you can have a quantity of Liquid Oxygen,
			   but not a number of it)
	4. EVA	   EVA	   (EVA are like deer, you have to make a shot
			    to get one)
	5. UNIX*   Unices** (as in index-indices) (eUnices??)
	6. MOS	   MOSM   (MOS-Multiple)
	7. VAX	   VAXEN
	8. Et cetera is its own plural

	- Yours for a more abbreviated world,

		Carl
		..!ctvax!uokvax!rigney
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* UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories, or whoever they are now
** Unices are trademarks of BTL, also:-)


(for those who didn't catch it the first time, this is all :-) :-))