[meta] Is "Wiki" both singular & plural?

[@TiddlyTweeter]

"Wiki", when I use it feels rather like "moose" and "sheep" -- both singular & plural. 

Is there a rule somewhere on this?

Best wishes

Josiah

[@TiddlyTweeter]

Repeat for email ...

[Mat]

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/wiki?r=75&src=ref&ch=dic

I will refrain from commenting on what it says as English is not my native tongue.

<:-)

[TonyM]

Josiah

Given the number of wikis I have, I would personally resist losing the ability to distinguish between singular wiki or plural wikis. However we can place something in a wiki as a category without nominating one or more.

Regards
Tony

[K500 L501]

Encyclopedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/topic/wiki says

"Wikis can be dated to 1995,..."

Since the Hitchhiker's Guide contains no entry of Wiki, we must assume that no such thing exists. That would imply there is only one singular nonexistance.

It can be assumed the "Wiki" was lost during the construction of an interstellar bypass.

Kilo

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[TonyM]

But then given the improbability drive perhaps wikis exist in every other time and place you have not yet looked at.

Ps the hyperlink needed to proceed the wiki.

Tony

[Jeremy Ruston]

A related linguistic question is whether “TiddlyWiki" should have the definite article. Joe Armstrong always referred to it as “the TiddlyWiki”, which I rather liked.

Best wishes

Jeremy

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[Mat]

K500 L501 wrote:

That would imply there is only one singular nonexistance.

So wikis don't don't exist?

<:-)

[Ste Wilson]

Wait....hold on.....the plural of Sheep is Sheeps!

[Mat]

You are all wrong!

As you know, the plural form of cactus is cacti and focus is foci.

Evidently "wiki" is already in plural form, for the singular wikus. As in TiddlyWikus. 

Now heading over to Github to correct the docs. Jeremy just taught me how to create new docs there so he will be thrilled.

<:-)

[@TiddlyTweeter]

*sends Sensible Sheperd to your area*

(Protecting "moose" from becoming "meese")

[@TiddlyTweeter]

English, as far as I know, is the only foreign language within itself.

[K500 L501]

As tonyM rightly pointed out, it depends on which universe you improbably don't look at

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Jeremy

Good observation on the "The" ... I agree with Joe. Part of the issue is software nomenclature got in habit of avoiding it. It may be as simple as indexing why it's NOT found for most any software.