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What's the plural of computer mouse?
Mice 70%  70%  [ 19 ]
Mouses 30%  30%  [ 8 ]
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26 Feb 2016, 2:30 pm

Squeakies



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26 Feb 2016, 2:32 pm

:oops:



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26 Feb 2016, 2:41 pm

hieroglyphics -
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26 Feb 2016, 3:01 pm

Why don't we call them "meeces," like Jinks the Cat used to call Pixie and Dixie Mouse?



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26 Feb 2016, 3:03 pm

les mice is easier to say :alien:



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26 Feb 2016, 3:09 pm

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26 Feb 2016, 4:25 pm

:lol:



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26 Feb 2016, 5:00 pm

useta get all sortsa funny pics through the fax machine at work :lol: those were the days :)



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26 Feb 2016, 5:01 pm

For the non-technical: those clicky thingies.


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26 Feb 2016, 5:05 pm

I wonder what it would be in African languages? I wonder if it would be something like "the hand thing with buttons that makes computers work" or something? in at least one African language, the definition of "faucet" is "the tube sticking out from the wall with a knob on it that spits out water when you turn the knob."



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26 Feb 2016, 5:10 pm

I can say it in sign language.
Dominant hand outstretched, palm facing downwards, slightly cupped.
Lift and lower index finger twice.
For the plural form, move the hand formation to the right while performing lifting and lowering the index finger several times.


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26 Feb 2016, 5:20 pm

For the iMac computer, the "mouse" became a hockey "puck." If I remember correctly, Steve Wozniak joked by calling them "meeses."


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26 Feb 2016, 5:25 pm

of the two steves, it always seemed to me that the shorter one had a sense of humor while the taller one did not.



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26 Feb 2016, 8:41 pm

Computer mice.


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26 Feb 2016, 8:50 pm

http://painintheenglish.com/case/534 - mouse devices



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26 Feb 2016, 8:53 pm

meeses is funnier and mice is easier [and more correct]