Joel Wilcox wrote:
At 12:16 AM 6/26/2002 -0500, John you wrote:
"Indices" is the proper plural of "index."
Proper in Latin. In English it is now more commonly "indexes." This is
nothing new.
Amusingly, while financial writing constantly mangles the
language in other ways, most financial publications still use
"indices" when talking about more than one stock index.
--
Joshua Putnam
http://www.phred.org/~josh/
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