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I contend that the word to describe multiple EDP is simply "echoplex". Like sheep, fish, or popcorn. -Chuck Zwicky At 11:54 AM 11/16/98 -0400, you wrote: >There's also "index" and "indices" -- > >At 06:59 AM 11/16/98 -0500, you wrote: >>kim: >>>nope, he had it right, "echoplicis". Dan Howarth provided us this >>>education over two years ago: >>> >>>At 12:23 AM -0800 10/4/96, Dan Howarth wrote: >>>>well, well... i think the word we're looking for here is 'echoplicis' - >>>>from '-plex,-plicis'- it's a suffix usually formed from numeric words; >>>>more or less like saying '-fold' as in 'hundred-fold'. >> >>The only similar word that pops into my head >>is the word "simplex" (from mathematics), whose >>plural is "simplices", at least in the mathematics >>community. (www.m-w.com offers "simplexes", >>"simplices", or "simplicia"--but no "simplicis".) >> >>The only terms of the form Dan Howarth described >>that I can find in a dictionary are "duplex", >>"triplex", and "multiplex", but m-w is silent >>on the possibility of plurals. >> >>I hope this doesn't perplex! >> >> >========================================================== >Howard Harawitz howard@brooknorth.com >========================================================== >Brooklyn North Software Works Inc. >Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada >Telephone: 1-902-423-0257 >========================================================== >Check the Halifax Harbor Cam: http://www.brooknorth.com/camsite/ > > >