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How I wish you Americans had just left them as "indices". Almost every time I read it as the verb.
by Walf 9y ago
How I wish you Americans had just left them as "indices". Almost every time I read it as the verb.
- ComputerGuru 9y agoAmerican here, and I agree. But growing up, it was always indices. Isn’t OED British? They recently took their dictionary behind a paywall (!!), but they recommend “indexes” while it appears accepted that it is the Americanized spelling nonetheless. Ref https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/indexes https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/indexes
- bunderbunder 9y agoThere may be an odd semantic distinction that doesn't translate. I (native US English speaker) typically interpret "indexes" as the plural of index as in "structure you use for fast key-value lookup". I interpret "indices" as the plural of index as in "lookup key".
- SliderUp 9y agoLaughed out loud. We used "indexes" and "indices" all over a code base, methods/classes and doc. It was a real mess to true up to one.
- rusbus 9y agoOP here. This is funny. On the rest of my blog post I use indices. For this post, I went with indexes because that's what PG calls them in the docs. I feel your pain.