Indexes - a bit off topic

[Hales-Crotchett, Nicole]

 Hate to say it, but according to both Webster's New Collegiate
Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), "appendix" is
pluralized using either "-ices" or "-ixes," regardless of definition.
Popular usage and preference may dictate differently, but the English
language does not differentiate.

Cheers!
Nicole





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Subject: Re: Indexes - a bit off topic

I was recently told by an editor that the plural of appendix (a book
appendix) is appendixes. Appendices is the plural of appendix, the organ
in your body.

I've never heard that before and wonder how true it is.

Pat