Re: ixes versus ices RE: Appendixes vs. Annexes

[Janet Myers <myers032 -at- tc -dot- umn -dot- edu>]

In my first tech writing job, the manager declared -ixes American and -ices
British and we were American. Don't know if there's any validity (she, by
the way, was Turkish) in that, but I've used -ixes ever since.
Janet Myers

Sean Brierley wrote:

> It's whatever you want it to be, just be consistent. Search the
> archives, this has been done before. However:
>
> 1) Parallelism with indexes, plural of index (indices being a
> mathematical thing) suggests the use of appendixes
>
> 2) I infer from The Chicago Manual of Style that appendixes is
> preferred, not by any statement in the reference guide but by its use of
> the term.
>
> Sean
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tom -dot- green -at- iwon -dot- com [mailto:tom -dot- green -at- iwon -dot- com]
> Speaking of splitting hairs in English. Is the plural of Appendix
> Appendixes or Appendices? (I hope the consensus is Appendices cause
> that's what's in my manuals)



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