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Espionage Report: spas...@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Simon Pasieka) wrote on
Sat, 11 May 1996 02:54:03 GMT:

|>In article <JzHFoCAwvkkxEw+R@j-catter>, Justin C  <Jus...@158.152.5.52> wrote:
|>>In article <31924B...@universal.nl>, Marc de Vries
|>><HdeV...@universal.nl> wrote:
|>>
|>>>(I bought it after I had lots of problems other mouses)
|>>>
|>>Mouses? MOUSES? Where did you get an education? Well bloody well go back
|>>and ask them to try again. Mouses indeed. Tuh.

|>[snip]

|>>(The word is 'mice' in case you haven't worked it out yet - see you all
|>>at the same time tomorrow for the next word from the english language in
|>>this series "Learning English On The Internet".
|>>
|>>Nighty, nighty children!)
|>>-- 
|>>                                           Information is not knowledge.       
|>>Justin C - By the sea.                     Knowledge is not wisdom.     

|>It is my understanding that , at least here in North America, the word 
|>'mice' is a plural of mouse (the animal) and 'mouses' is plural of mouse 
|>(the computer equipment). So although Marc might also have problems with 
|>'mice', I do not believe that's what he was referring to.

<grin>  Perhaps we can see about using another word, such as... "rats"?