- From: Øyvind Stenhaug <oyvinds@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:20:11 +0100
- To: "Alan Gresley" <alan@css-class.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:51:19 +0100, Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com> wrote: > The MacQuarie Concise Dictionary of Australia. > > axis - the central line of any symmetrical ..... > axes - plural of axis Exactly. > I myself have used axises (no red underline for spell check as I typed > that) on this list. It doesn't get a red underline because it's a correctly spelled word, but nevertheless it is the wrong word. As I and several other people have pointed out, "axises" is the plural of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_(genus) > To uses the spelling found in computer science (which was largely > American to begin with) is confusing for English speakers in Britain, > Australia and New Zealand. It's not specific to computer science. -- Øyvind Stenhaug Core Norway, Opera Software ASA
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