RE: Plural form of appendix

["Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

Both plural forms are acceptable, but I use "appendices."  If there is a
style guide, then follow that.  Chicago seems to favor appendixes, but OWL
likes both, which is funny to me,
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/670/05/.

Lauren


> From: debra -dot- jones -at- editure -dot- com

> I am working with a bid manager (a contractor) who is using appendices
> because her husband found on the internet that appendixes means more
> than one appendix (body part). 


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