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<5290105a$0$29993$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: square.steve@gmail.com List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 44 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1385224500 news.xs4all.nl 15938 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:35259 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:60313 By the same logic the plural of spouse is spice and most men that have had more than one wife will tell you that, whilst it may be the expectation, it ain't necessarily so ;-)

On 23/11/2013 16:44, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 23:42:44 -0700, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

        Rice is the plural of rouse

Not according to the dictionary.  But it does seem a more likely
candidate for a hypothetical back formation than "ri", which perhaps
was your point.

	Mice/Mouse <> Rice/*Rouse