This is a minor pet peeve of mine so apologies if I come across as rude, but the word 'codes' is a linguistic error (particularly prominent in indian coders for

This is a minor pet peeve of mine so apologies if I come across as rude, but the word 'codes' is a linguistic error (particularly prominent in indian coders for some reason, but also common elsewhere). The word 'code' when applied to computer source code has no plural. This is in contrast to other uses where it does have a plural, like in "Nuclear Codes", or "Codes of conduct". In this capacity, it refers to codes as a collection of 'individual code items' (i.e. symbolic representations that map to practical functionality) that can be thought of as countable items in a bag. However, when used to denote things like source code, or morse code, it is an uncountable singular noun. It is wrong to say "I sent a message using Morse Codes". In this sense, 'code' is similar to sugar, fruit, fish, etc. Note that sugar, fruit, and fish also have this distinction that the word has a plural form, but the plural is only used to denote 'different varieties of', as opposed to a large number of sugar molecules, a large number of otherwise identical fruit items in a basket, or a large number of individual fish of the same type. Obviously you can't change the website now just to correct a silly grammar mistake, since that would cost money, but ... arrrgh. Other words often mistakenly used in the plural when they shouldn't: - Advice: Let me give you some advice (not some advices) - Practice: You need more practice (not practices) - Exercise: You lack exercise (not exercises - 'exercises' means a collection of individual exercise items, not an increased quantity of exercise) - Text: You need to add more text (not texts - 'texts' means a number of text items, e.g. "this appears in many texts") etc. </rant>