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Erlkönig: mongoose.shtmlFrom: ron_b@apollo.hp.com (Ronald Buttiglieri) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,talk.bizarre Subject: Re: Proper plural of Macintosh Date: 22 Oct 91 12:20:52 GMT In article <6758@borg.cs.unc.edu> howell@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (William Howell) writes: >Does anyone know what Apple considers the proper plural >form of Macintosh? > > Macintoshs > Macintoshes This reminds me of the old joke: A zookeeper was writing a letter requesting some new animals for the zoo's new exhibit. He was having trouble, however, pluralizing 'mongoose'. "Dear Sirs; Please send me two mongeese.." Nah. That doesn't sound right.. "Dear Sirs; Please send me two mongooses.." After several attempts to solve his problem, he finally wrote the following: "Dear Sirs; Please send me a mongoose for our new exhibit. And while you're at it, send me another one." And now back to our regularly scheduled program.. Ron |