Sanby

Well, a daunting question I am sure, which has been in many minds and is lurking in a corner of the brain haunting many people. the ultimate question.

Is the Plural of a computer mouse MOUSES or MICE

Let's here from the PSG community.

BTW I heard somewhere, I do not remeber where (it cam up at a family gather with my two uncles, my dad and I, yes we're all computer nerds [excited] ) That the plural is acctually mouses. I don't know where this came from but I blieve it to be true.

My vote is Mouses.

Sanby

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MindBender

Grammatically speaking, it should be "mouses" since it's not actually the same as the animal. When you use the word "mice" you're not so much talking about plural but plural grouping which is an animal thing.

i.e. you could have one goose, but a gaggle of geese.

The really fun one is fish. One fish is a "fish". Many fish of the same kind are "fish". Many fish of different kinds are "fishes". heh

Ain't English grand?

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wbiss

Inquiring minds DO need to know!

This response from http://www.linguistlist.org/main.html

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dv8_fx

This is a good question [confused] [bustagut] .

Its mouse. Neither singular or plural.

Here's another kind of mouse........

vee

wbiss

[bustagut] [bustagut] [bustagut] Vee!
I love it! [righton]

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Sanby

LMAO

Lol, took me a second to realize whot that good looking guy was but I figured iut out.

Good one!

[bustagut]

Sanby

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Geoff

hahaha hilarious Vee!!! [bustagut] [bustagut]

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namvet

Sanby ... according to 'Mr Jinks' (cat of cartoon fame), and being a cat he must be an authority on the subject, the correct term is meeses ... I can still hear Mr Jinks saying "I hate those meeses to pieces" [bustagut] [bustagut] ... so it's meeses
dv8_fx .. nice work [righton]

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Geoff

hmmm.... meeses kinda rolls off of the tongue i love it!!

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