Its amazing how little you can have to say at times. I certainly went through a spell there. Almost two months without a post. I wish I could say I was too busy, but that's not the case. Well what has finnaly broken my blogger block? Not sure. Although I really liked the question posed on Artima on 'How Would you Redesign java.awt.Component'. The text of the question breaks down the problem well. The most interesting thing about it though is that after 5 days it has no responses.
Axis, Axes, Axii?
While writing another post (it will probably follow this one) I needed to pluralize axis. None of the guesses I came up with passed the spell checker so I Googled it. The first hit I got was from a drafting company. (Interesting aside: word order matters in Google more than I realized - searching for "plural axis" didn't get the same dictionary oriented results as "axis plural") According to these folks the answer is:
Grammatical Note :
The plural of axis is axes. Some radical etymologists insist that the plural form of axis is axii, but that is only if there are three or more;
One axis, two axes, three axii.
The word axii, however, still doesn’t pass the spell checker, so perhaps getting grammar lessons from a drafting company isn’t such a great idea. More legitimate authorities simply list axes as the plural.
If you do visit the above link to drafing company, can you answer me a question, what the heck are those diagrams depicting. I...
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