> Ha... what really gets me is something a math teacher of mine would do. She'd use the correct plurals to refer to matrices and vertices, but then refer to one "matrice" or one "vertice". Argh! After pointing it out the first time I dismissed it as a hopeless case and just cringed all semester. She also pronounced "height" as if it were "heighth" - same ending sound as "eighth"...
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> -Fob"please, correct me if I'm wrong"ulis

Hmph. And she didn't refer to the X and Y axe? ;-) Just be glad that wasn't your English teacher, I guess...

Speaking of "height", by the way, here's an accompanying word that I also hear mispronounced a lot: "length". I don't know *how* many people I've heard not pronounce the "g" in that word...

-- codeman"getting tired of listening to my English teacher's rants about her students' bad grammar"38