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Re: complist bug and PATCH: spelling

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Zsh workers <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: complist bug and PATCH: spelling
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:24:19 +0000
In-reply-to: "Oliver Kiddle"'s message of "Fri, 17 Dec 1999 13:47:26 GMT." <385A3EEE.15917530@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> My second, unrelated point is that the plural of index is indices, not
> indexes.

Only for in the mathematical sense.  Compilers of indexes (for books) are
quite particular that the plural is regular in that case, unlike the
English language in any *@!!* case.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

References:
- complist bug and PATCH: spelling
  - From: Oliver Kiddle

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