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Comment by MichaelBurge | Hacker News Reader

ox -> oxen

unix -> unixen

emacs -> emacsen

Interestingly, I have never seen "emaces" suggested as a plural of emacs, despite emacs-era hackers' propensity to play with plurals (and other affixes).

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/plural.el

    ("emacs" "emacsen")

I'm learning a lot about plurals there...Media is a plural of medium...This should have been obvious but I never thought about it.

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