Computer Mice or Mouses?

[Laurence Horn]

On Mar 21, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:

> And nobody asked, but I think the general problem has been around a long
> time--my father used to tell the story of the tailor who was trying to
> order new devices for his shop, and who went through several iterations
> of "gooses-geese" and finally says "Please send me a new goose, model
> number..... and then he writes P.S. Please send me three more like that.
>
> No. I am not kidding:
> http://www.ovcs.org/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=925
>
as in "Please send me a mongoose, and make it twins."

LH

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