Computer Mice or Mouses?

[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> Mice.
>
> Why would it be anything else?

See this 1991 discussion on Linguist List, which includes a comment
from Steven Pinker (rehearsing a point about the regularization of new
senses of irregular nouns and verbs, later elaborated on in _The
Language Instinct_ and _Words and Rules_):

http://linguistlist.org/issues/2/2-578.html

--bgz

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