I had a question about indices on a table and I put it up on Stack Overflow. I got my answer, but someone changed the word indices to say indexes.
We know that the plural of Index is Indices, but we also know that almost everybody prefers the "wrong" word.
What are some other "wrong" terms like this that really shouldn't be, but are overtaking their "correct" counterparts?
Most people don't know that "data" is the plural and "datum" is the singular. How often have you heard "a single data point?"
But then again, even those of us who do know think it sounds goofy and hardly ever say it.
Language is mutable and "datum" might be on its way to becoming archaic by popular decree!