Mox plural?
Nicholas Rabinowitz (Cushing Academy 96)
Useless, trivial thing (so let's put it to a poll):
Is the plural of Mox (as in Mox Jet):
a) Mox
b) Moxes
c) Moxen
d) Lots of cash
Please vote.
Nick
David DeLaney
>cwob...@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Craig O'Brien) writes:
>>(Nicholas Rabinowitz (Cushing Academy 96)) writes:
>>>Useless, trivial thing (so let's put it to a poll):
>
>>>Is the plural of Mox (as in Mox Jet):
>>>a) Mox
>>>b) Moxes
>>>c) Moxen
>>>d) Lots of cash
>
>
>I doubt it's that, considering Moxi might be the Latin plural of a noun,
>though I don't think 'x' is a Latin letter.
If it's Latin, it's almost certainly Mox-Mogis-Mogi-Mogem-Moge-Mox,
Mogi-Mogorem-Mogis-Mogos-Mogis-Mogi for a declension, so the "plural"
as used in English-stolen-from-Latin (nom. plural) would be Mogi.
Dave "x is a perfectly good Latin letter (Rex); it's j and u they were missing"
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Christopher G. Wood
cox...coxes
fox...foxes
vox...voces
(lox is plural derived from laksi)
(pox is plural derived from pokke)
(sox is a plural for sock)
Looks like 'moxes' would be the best bet, but my vote would go to 'moxi'
just because it sounds cool.
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Tom Wylie
>Is the plural of Mox (as in Mox Jet):
It's whatever you feel like. I say "moxen" (like "oxen"), a lot of people
I know say "moxes". Similarly, I've heard "multilands", "split lands",
and "dual lands" all used to refer to Bayous and so forth.
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Joe Hines
: Useless, trivial thing (so let's put it to a poll):
: Is the plural of Mox (as in Mox Jet):
: a) Mox
: b) Moxes
: c) Moxen
: d) Lots of cash
Well my vote is Moxes... following the box, boxes example.
Joe Hines
Thomas F. Guevin
nrab...@k12.ucs.umass.edu (Nicholas Rabinowitz (Cushing Academy 96))
writes:
> Is the plural of Mox (as in Mox Jet):
> a) Mox
> b) Moxes
> c) Moxen
> d) Lots of cash
The pure latin form would be Moces. The plural of Vox is not Voxes,
but Voces in classical latin.
I vote for Moces, because it's easier to say than Moxes.
LexCollins
(David DeLaney) writes:
It's not Latin, "mox" it's Dominian, meaning, "to grab your Wheelock", and the
plural is "meexes" (except on high holy days, when the use of the letter 'm' is
forbidden: 'You usn't let e leave y eexes at hoe today.')
-Lex
Tom Wylie
> Try e) None of the above. Mox is in the traditional place of the
>adjective, which in English doesn't generally *have* a plural. The plural
>form should be Mox Gems (or the plural of the gem you're talking about).
>Mox Stones might work, too.
There are various English words which are used as both an adjective
and a noun... for example, "the black population" and "See those blacks
walking down the street?" Around where I live, at least, "mox" is used
as such a word (i.e. functions as both noun and adjective), so it makes
sense to talk about the plural of it.
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Joseph Cochran
>Nicholas Rabinowitz (Cushing Academy 96) <nrab...@k12.ucs.umass.edu> wrote:
>>Is the plural of Mox (as in Mox Jet):
>
>I know say "moxes". Similarly, I've heard "multilands", "split lands",
>and "dual lands" all used to refer to Bayous and so forth.
>
other day when I saw a revised Plateau. I thought at a glance that it
was a white bordered Urza's Mine!
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Joseph Cochran
Try e) None of the above. Mox is in the traditional place of the
adjective, which in English doesn't generally *have* a plural. The plural
form should be Mox Gems (or the plural of the gem you're talking about).
Mox Stones might work, too.
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Jay Elmore
Thomas F. Guevin <Thomas....@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>I vote for Moces, because it's easier to say than Moxes.
Then how do you say the plural of "box"? I think "Moxes" sounds a lot more
natural than "Moces."
But to be honest, I usually say "Mox Jewels."
Jay (=
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Jason Skiles
: Useless, trivial thing (so let's put it to a poll):
: Please vote.
: Nick
Among computer types, the plural of Vax is Vaxen, and it's cool, so my vote
goes to 'moxen'.
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