Normally, the plural of mouse is mice when you are referring to those real rodents. However, in the case of a “mouse” used for the computer, can you still use the plural form “mice”, “computer mice” if you are referring to lots of computer mouse? “Computer mouses” i guess is not proper. What do you think?
Computer mouses or computer mice?
October 4th, 2005 by karuro
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Teaching English to Preschoolers with iPhones
We (i.e. the creators of Pain in The English) developed a series of iPhone apps to teach preschool kids how to recognize letters and words. (My wife developed the characters and I did the coding.) Our own 4-year old daughter has been enjoying them. They are now available on Apple's App Store. You can search for "bitskis" on your iPhone, or visit the official website at bitskis.com.
If you have kids and own an iPhone, please check it out. It's $2.
Please how do you pluralise a phrase like 'head of department'? Is it 'heads of department' or heads of departments'?
That would be "department heads".
I work at an English Language college, and nobody believed me when I said it was "mouses, so I came here to look it up. Guess I wasn't as correct as I thought I was.
What do you mean, Kylie? If you read everything here, you should conclude that you were completely correct. You would only have been incorrect if you insisted that it was the ONLY way to say it.
No, People, I am the father of modern technology!
NIGGA STOLE MY BIKE!
it's mouses, the pope told me so.
I sleep with a pillow under ym gun.
Fuck yo' mouses…
I am a nobber.
i think its a very interesting topic. The views of Whitey are very informative and i took this on board while trying to search for my solution. After hours of deliberation and a thesis conducted by myself last year i came up with the following conclusion:
does it matter much? u know what i mean what eva i say, thats what language is for!
though most people agreed from my surveys that it was mousification units!
sleep better!
For those of you running Windows XP (possibly other operating systems, too), if you go to "device manager" you will find that your mouse is listed under "Mice and other pointing devices". I guess that means that Microsoft prefers "mice".
I think people should respect academic issues for the value they add to our society. Making comments that don’t edify anyone – even the writer! – is, to say the least, like clouds and wind without rain.
Mouses…mice…mices….we all know what we mean right?
New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition. © 2005 by Oxford University Press:
I guess it’s OK if we distinguish the rodents and devices grammatically :)