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Posted By: GUEST,Mr Happy
01-Dec-05 - 07:19 AM
Thread Name: BS: Grammar Police: eats shoots and leaves
Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Police: eats shoots and leaves
Q,

I know what I was looking at- clearly not the same text as you.


A die is a cube with the sides numbered 1-6 & used in games of chance.

The plural of 'die' is 'dice'


See below where the reference to 'indices' was taken from.


Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Police: eats shoots and leaves
From: GUEST,Peter
Date: 30 Nov 05 - 06:55 PM

An example of recent change- index, pl. indices; becoming obsolete, indexes preferred in current dictionaries.

Indices are the entries in an index. Multiple collections of indices are indexes.