On 12/12/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12 December 2006 18:24, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > I have never seen anyone (except non-native speakers by mistake) use
> > mouses as the plural for a computer mouse. Are the people of the Oxford
> > dictionary nuts, or is this really correct and mice wrong in this case?
>
> 1) You have waaaaaaayyyyy too much time on your hands :)
Well, I had to look up the other thing. ;-)
>
> 2) My OED (2002 edition) says of the computer device "(pl also mouses)"
> so they consider both mice and mouses to be correct.
Might this also be related to the use of "mouse" as a verb? I.e.
"mouse over the image to see it change,"
I mouse
You mouse
He mouses?
We all.....mice?
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