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(from the header:) The Two Alexs Alexes? Alex's? Alexi? Alexim? In hackanonical form, Alexen. As in oxen, vaxen, boxen.

by ableal 17y ago

goodside 17y ago
"Alices", by analogy with "codex".
- Torn 17y ago
  Alexes is the best of the bunch.
- davidw 17y ago
  It's a Greek name, so I'd go with that for plurals, rather than German or Latin templates.
techiferous 17y ago
As in regexen. :)
riffraff 17y ago
IIRC oxen is a vestigial dual (not plural) form, so quite appropriate.
- bdr 17y ago
  According to http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=ox http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=ox -- "Oxen is the only true survival in Mod.Eng. of the O.E. weak plural." From what I can tell, it looks like OE nouns could have either "strong" or "weak" declensions, and this is different from the dual form. Someone on another forum claims that "brethren" is another example.
  - riffraff 17y ago
    may well be true, my source is an old State of the Onion talk from Larry Wall, which although a linguist is probably not the most qualified in the world :)
- jamesbritt 17y ago
  So four ox = oxenen?
pohl 17y ago
Hackanonical is my new favorite word. Thank you for that.
eru 17y ago
And Socksen.
barredo 17y ago
Damn Google http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=Hackanonical http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=Hackanonical
- ableal 17y ago
  Sorry about that, just made it up on the fly. Hacker(-speak) + canonical (form) portmanteau.
arsduo 17y ago
Alexen is awesome. I just added it to the header. (Hackanonical is even more awesome, but it sadly doesn't fit there.) Thanks for the words! Alex K PS I appreciate how strong codex/codices example is, but, well, Alices, not so much.
blasdel 17y ago
Take Alex's, Alexi, Alexim, Alexen, and boxen out back to be euthanized along with the awful virii and anything else that would lead Cory Doctorow to chortle while typing. Hackanonical, however, is without flaw. It should be in the name of this site!

(from the header:) The Two Alexs Alexes? Alex's? Alexi? Alexim? In hackanonical form, Alexen. As in oxen, vaxen, boxen.

by ableal 17y ago

(from the header:) The Two Alexs Alexes? Alex's? Alexi? Alexim? In hackanonical form, Alexen. As in oxen, vaxen, boxen.

goodside 17y ago

"Alices", by analogy with "codex".

Torn 17y ago
Alexes is the best of the bunch.
davidw 17y ago
It's a Greek name, so I'd go with that for plurals, rather than German or Latin templates.

techiferous 17y ago

As in regexen. :)

riffraff 17y ago

IIRC oxen is a vestigial dual (not plural) form, so quite appropriate.

bdr 17y ago
According to http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=ox http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=ox -- "Oxen is the only true survival in Mod.Eng. of the O.E. weak plural." From what I can tell, it looks like OE nouns could have either "strong" or "weak" declensions, and this is different from the dual form. Someone on another forum claims that "brethren" is another example.
- riffraff 17y ago
  may well be true, my source is an old State of the Onion talk from Larry Wall, which although a linguist is probably not the most qualified in the world :)
jamesbritt 17y ago
So four ox = oxenen?

pohl 17y ago

Hackanonical is my new favorite word. Thank you for that.

eru 17y ago

And Socksen.

barredo 17y ago

Damn Google http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=Hackanonical http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=Hackanonical

ableal 17y ago
Sorry about that, just made it up on the fly. Hacker(-speak) + canonical (form) portmanteau.

arsduo 17y ago

Alexen is awesome. I just added it to the header. (Hackanonical is even more awesome, but it sadly doesn't fit there.) Thanks for the words! Alex K PS I appreciate how strong codex/codices example is, but, well, Alices, not so much.

blasdel 17y ago

Take Alex's, Alexi, Alexim, Alexen, and boxen out back to be euthanized along with the awful virii and anything else that would lead Cory Doctorow to chortle while typing. Hackanonical, however, is without flaw. It should be in the name of this site!