On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
> Dice? Do
you mean "dies" maybe?
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Ethan Dicks wrote:
In industry pubs I've read, I've seen
them called "dice".
Are they as authoritative as Wikipedia? :-)
I very intentionally did not quote Wikipedia precisely to avoid
subsequent source bashing.
I always thought it was "dies" too, but in trade rags, advertisements,
etc., going back decades, "dice" appears to be the preferred plural
within the industry, common street English be damned.
-ethan