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AIQ
AIQ
01:32
@snailcar Hi! Would you be willing to take a look at this answer - english.stackexchange.com/a/3126/300322 - I have a feeling this is wrong!
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, the plural of index is indices when index is used to mean "a sign or measure of something" (like price index/CPI index) and indexes when index is used to mean "an alphabetical list that shows you where information is found in a book, on a website, etc."
 
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AIQ
AIQ
02:49
No effort in writing the question. God!
 
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06:37
I'm not sure what you think is wrong about that answer. When talking about a table or an array of items, the plural of index is indices. Look it up in the LDOCE.
 
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AIQ
AIQ
08:18
I looked it up in Cambridge - it says the plural of index is indexes when it is used to mean directories (tables/lists/info). The answer does not make that distinction.
08:57
Is "to complete a form" idiomatic, or should we always use "fill out/in a form"?
 
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Anonymous
16:22
@AIQ The weirdest thing about the answer is the use of the word spelled.
Anonymous
I don't think the answer is necessarily wrong, but it doesn't really give enough information to be useful.
Anonymous
I would argue that it's misleading, though. Indexes is common "in technical use" depending on how you interpret "technical". For example, you usually have database indexes rather than database indices.
16:46
indices sounds Latin?
like formulae
imho
 
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18:55
@userr2684291 Eh, whom uses that anymore, ser?
Anonymous
19:52
I personally treat indices as the primary form, with indexes as an exception to be used in specific cases.
AIQ
AIQ
23:45
@snailcar Thanks for taking a look at it. You explained it perfectly - I apologize for using "wrong" - but incomplete and misleading. What struck me was that it got 67 upvotes - I would expect that many votes on a top quality answer. And yes, it depends on what "technical" means. Even in a technical paper - one can have multiple inequality measures (indices) and then several directories (indexes).

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