17 Jul
2009
17 Jul
'09
10:59 a.m.
Ox/Oxen -> VAX/VAXen is the straight answer (there
are a few joke
answers from back in the day like "why isn't it box/boxen?")
http://dictionary.babylon.com/VAXen
I always thought it was a play on vixen, not to uncommon to have naughty
words in a male dominated field ("NESticle, strip, fsck)
/p