I have noticed, over my perusals of the boards here, a stunningly high number of mistakes when it comes to referring to those little bits of plastic to which all of our favorite minis are attached. So, in an effort to curb this epidemic, I present the following in order to inform and educate.

This is a sprue. The plural is "sprues."


This is a spruce. This particular one does not, in all likelihood, contain any models or wargaming miniatures.


Do not be fooled by your browser's spellcheck. You can rest assured that sprue is a word and is in fact the correct term.

With Christmas quickly approaching, we may be seeing the occasional box of minis new-on-spruce. Until then, however, I'll take mine on the sprues.

lol, I was at a con this week with a couple of guys who told me a story about a couple of kids selling a giant box of spruces. I laughed then and I shall laugh now.

To add to this, I have also noticed a large number of people spelling Turret wrong

they tend to put Turrent . . . its Turret people

Lucid wrote:To add to this, I have also noticed a large number of people spelling Turret wrong

they tend to put Turrent . . . its Turret people

Oh yeah that's another really bad one. I've seen it in some bitz stores as well. NO WONDER I couldn't find those razorback weapons I was looking for.

Lucid wrote:To add to this, I have also noticed a large number of people spelling Turret wrong

they tend to put Turrent . . . its Turret people

I've never seen 'turrent' anywhere. But at least it's just a spelling mistake, unlike when people confuse "their", "they're" and "there" and completely confuse a sentence.

Another is "Ordnance" spelled "Ordinance".

I have a local business competitor that advertises that

"No job is to big or to small!"

I advertise that I can spell "too".

How about when they use dwarfs not dwarves ! you dont have a army of "dwarfs" as you have to call them p.o.r.g's now anyway !
you have a army of dwarves lol

{Person Of Restricted Growth}

CURNOW wrote:How about when they use dwarfs not dwarves ! you dont have a army of "dwarfs" as you have to call them p.o.r.g's now anyway !
you have a army of dwarves lol

{Person Of Restricted Growth}

Well...umm... http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/landingArmy.jsp?catId=cat440017a&rootCatGameStyle=

CURNOW wrote:How about when they use dwarfs not dwarves ! you dont have a army of "dwarfs" as you have to call them p.o.r.g's now anyway !
you have a army of dwarves lol

{Person Of Restricted Growth}

I think Dwarves vs. Dwarfs has roots in Tolkien, at least. Keep in mind that plural forms are more or less just rules of thumb, and not hard and fast rules. I've seen discussion about it before... I think it may have been an intentional stylistic choice to help differentiate "short, hairy, mountain-people born from the mountains" from "people with stunted growth that can get a reality show these days if they have an interesting job."

Spruces for Sprues has annoyed me for quite a while, too. It almost got to the point where I stopped commenting as I thought it might have been British English, much like the use of 'whinge' instead of the US 'whine.'

I think it's mostly gone away, but you used to see people confuse 'runes' and 'ruins' a lot online.

I think it's mostly gone away, but you sued to see people confuse 'runes' and 'ruins' a lot online.

Litigation over world choice? I endorse this product and/or service.

Laughing Man wrote:

I think it's mostly gone away, but you sued to see people confuse 'runes' and 'ruins' a lot online.

Litigation over world choice? I endorse this product and/or service.

I always mistype use/sue it seems. On the plus side, I do know the difference between a tree and a plastic frame.

You quite often see people typing Emperor.

Rogue/Rouge is another bad one too. Pretty prominent, and just as glaring.

Zefig wrote:Rogue/Rouge is another bad one too. Pretty prominent, and just as glaring.

Angel/Angle! I love hearing of the exploits of the Blood Angles!

(I am amused by my own inability to spell/type in a thread complaining about people's spelling skills...)

Another sprue issue that bothers me is "sprew."
It bothers me only slightly less than spruce.

Emporer, pratect me! Send the Blood Angles and Ultramarnies in all there glory too pratect my modles and spruce!

Eric

hey man I totalyl dont half too cut all my gaurd of there spruce or b gluing their tank turrents on when i verse my litle brother cuz we verse on vassal...i play on my labtop!

Phew. That even hurt me. Oh, and "intensive purposes".

My most common spell check error is squeal, because for some reason I am dyslexic as hell and every time I spell it squeel and spell check it as sequel. And on a side note I LOVE orks, but can't stand when people talk in Ork style language just annoys the piss out of me for some reason.

Catyrpelius wrote:lol, I was at a con this week with a couple of guys who told me a story about a couple of kids selling a giant box of spruces. I laughed then and I shall laugh now.

They wouldn't happened to have been involved with an organization called NJ Gamer, would they? A couple of heavier set gentlemen... occurred at an auction... kids had ridiculous expectations of getting like a dollar per bit or something like that? I assume that the con was the warstore weekend...

Kilkrazy wrote:You quite often see people typing Emperor.

...That's because it's actually spelled Emperor...

chaos0xomega wrote:

Catyrpelius wrote:lol, I was at a con this week with a couple of guys who told me a story about a couple of kids selling a giant box of spruces. I laughed then and I shall laugh now.

They wouldn't happened to have been involved with an organization called NJ Gamer, would they? A couple of heavier set gentlemen... occurred at an auction... kids had ridiculous expectations of getting like a dollar per bit or something like that? I assume that the con was the warstore weekend...

Those would infact be the gentlemen. Would you by any chance be one of those gentlemen?

Emporer, pratect me! Send the Blood Angles and Ultramarnies in all there glory too pratect my modles and spruce!

I think I just went cross-eye'd and had an aneurysm.

I may have to add that to my signature after I have recovered.

Worms

daedalus wrote:hey man I totalyl dont half too cut all my gaurd of there spruce or b gluing their tank turrents on when i verse my litle brother cuz we verse on vassal...i play on my labtop!

Phew. That even hurt me. Oh, and "intensive purposes".

Oh jeez, don't even get me started on "versing."

Balance wrote:
Angel/Angle! I love hearing of the exploits of the Blood Angles!

Not sure why, but that one doesn't annoy me nearly as much. Maybe it's because I've taken advantage of it to snag some juicy deals on ebay that no one else can find because they're actually searching for the correct army name.

Fraction instead of faction

Mute instead of moot

Rouge instead of rogue

droid instead of druid. This is an audio one though. I have not seen it typed.

versing should not be used because it sounds dumb and is not a word. Noticing that one more lately and it bugs me

One of my favorite posts hase been because someone misspelled or missused verse, and someone took it to mean a verse of peotry. The thread spawned another thread of awsome/awful 40k poetry. . . I have to find that again . . .


If anyone does find it would you be so kind as to throw up a link?

Laughing Man wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:You quite often see people typing Emperor.

...That's because it's actually spelled Emperor...

No, it's not.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/115025.page

i c no probs on dis topik
corse i is also a produkt ov da kaleefornya skool sistem so is i am smarterer den most of yooze.

(and I vote....BWHAHAHAHA)

I've never heard anyone ever say "Spruce".

Guy in our group pronounces "Hatred" "Hat-red" (Hat as in I'm wearing a hat, and red as in the colour). It's weird.

I just remembered. Some people end thier pleading with "please advice" instead of Please Advise

or they screw it up the other way around and ask for "advise" instead of Advice

Zefig wrote:This is a spruce. This particular one does not, in all likelihood, contain any models or wargaming miniatures.

You mean they don't grow on trees?

My #1 peeve is "of" instead of "have": "I could of..."

Almost as annoying are all the F-word alternatives: fething, frakking, freaking, fricking, frigging, etc.

Say what you mean, mean what you say...


Finally, there's the sheer, gross, ignorance of people like my brother-in-law who once asked me how many pixie-cells my monitor has.

To be perfectly honest, while I reserve a particular level of scorn for mixing 'their' 'they're' and 'there', any mistake inevitably gets to me In my defence, my full-time job is as a copywriter/proof-reader, so I have to be picky!

Aw, I was hoping for a plastic versus tree deathmatch.

I still wonder how spell check could have lead to that though.

Catyrpelius wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:

Catyrpelius wrote:lol, I was at a con this week with a couple of guys who told me a story about a couple of kids selling a giant box of spruces. I laughed then and I shall laugh now.

They wouldn't happened to have been involved with an organization called NJ Gamer, would they? A couple of heavier set gentlemen... occurred at an auction... kids had ridiculous expectations of getting like a dollar per bit or something like that? I assume that the con was the warstore weekend...

Those would infact be the gentlemen. Would you by any chance be one of those gentlemen?

No, but I know them very well, I help them out with NJ Gamer activities when I'm home from school for the summer.

watever, its a, mute point

You mean its a MOOT point...

At least one occasionally prays that is the case. Depends on whether the point has been mooted or not.

BloodQuest wrote:Almost as annoying are all the F-word alternatives: fething, frakking, freaking, fricking, frigging, etc.

Say what you mean, mean what you say...

So, in other words, use an actual adjective instead of swearing?

By far the most common mistake I see on game forums is "loose" instead of "lose". If you don't like loosing, tighten up your game, man.

Kilkrazy wrote:

Laughing Man wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:You quite often see people typing Emperor.

...That's because it's actually spelled Emperor...

No, it's not.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/115025.page

Yes it is?

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emperor
http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_us1243876#m_en_us1243876
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1060203
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1095444


I like it when people say or type, "spruce"; always makes me chuckle a little. I think it's cute and it makes me think of my son (he's said it before and I've also heard him say "pumble"). I always refer to 40k as "Warpumbler".

I will never be able to spell the emp-r-r word again thanks to you guys, I'm so confused.

The mispelling I see the most out of everything is the word "the."

Often people are typing fast and say the  I can't actually type the word fast correctly when I try.

The Bringer wrote:I will never be able to spell the emp-r-r word again thanks to you guys, I'm so confused.

Do a Google search for "emporer" and then do one for "emperor". Note the results.

emporer has 317,000 results
emperor has 54,000 results

Does that mean emporer is correct? My spellcheck says otherwise... aahkk!!!

I don't know what to trust.

The Bringer wrote:emporer has 317,000 results
emperor has 54,000 results

Does that mean emporer is correct? My spellcheck says otherwise... aahkk!!!

I don't know what to trust.

Google asks, "Did you mean emperor" when I search for "emporer":



I get "About 45,500,000 results" when I search for "emperor":

Try googling 'dry humour doesn't always translate well into the written word...'

H.B.M.C. wrote:I've never heard anyone ever say "Spruce".

Guy in our group pronounces "Hatred" "Hat-red" (Hat as in I'm wearing a hat, and red as in the colour). It's weird.

I can personally attest that, over on Bartertown, we occasionally see people trying to trade or sell models "new on spruce."
I desperately want to edit them, but you can't protect people from their own stupidity. : )


Eric

And, of course, it's always nice to see lightening bolts...

If someone did an injection kit of the Hughes H-4 Hercules, it would contain heaps of Spruce Goose Sprues.

The Bringer wrote:emporer has 317,000 results
emperor has 54,000 results

Does that mean emporer is correct? My spellcheck says otherwise... aahkk!!!

I don't know what to trust.

My google has 45,000,000 hits for "emperor" and 314,000 for "emporer"
maybe you are using Goegle instead?

There is only One True Spase Emporer!!!

I've often rolled my eyes at both DE Ravagers and Tyranid Raveners (sp?) being referred to as "Ravengers."

"Rediculous" makes me twitch. It's either 'ridiculous' or 'recockulous'.

insaniak wrote:Try googling 'dry humour doesn't always translate well into the written word...'

I did, I got this: No results found for "dry humour doesn't always translate well into the written word".

OP

Technically the first picture is a tree
and the second is another tree.

About time... I have some locals in my group who insist it is 'spur'

Unfortunately, Chibi, the first one isn't coniferous.

You probably wouldn't want to landscape with it.

Then again.....

Kilkrazy wrote:If someone did an injection kit of the Hughes H-4 Hercules, it would contain heaps of Spruce Goose Sprues.

HA!

Simple spelling errors never bothered me too much, we all make mistakes. It's the constant mispelling that irks me, or substituting numbers for words. You know who you are.

I see some have already mentioned the horrible rogue/rouge, I can't recall all those instances I've read "I went to the local Rouge Trader tournament...", uh-huh yeah, you went over there and got yourself a nice make-over, probably with some mascara and lipstick too.

Lose/loose is only a mild annoyance for me though very common.

Chaos/Choas really irritates me though, learn to spell (part of) the name of your own army!! This one gets my goat every time and I don't even play with any variation of those guys!

And btw, isn't it spelled Empror?

Zefig wrote:Unfortunately, Chibi, the first one isn't coniferous.

You probably wouldn't want to landscape with it.

Then again.....

Having studied Landscape Design am sure it would be perfectly possible
And now you come to mention it

And technically it is still a tree and not a sprue afaik

Kilkrazy wrote:If someone did an injection kit of the Hughes H-4 Hercules, it would contain heaps of Spruce Goose Sprues.

hehe
Pretty sure I saw such a kit recently on ebay, not sure which scale but fairly safe in assuming 1/144
Would possibly actually get to fly as much as the real thing.

Taken from Codex: Space Marines

"From the ashes of the age of strife arose a mighty leader, the man who would only be known as The Emperor"
So by games workshop's spelling it's Emperor, and I believe their overpriced Codexes.

There is no spellcheck in the Grimgakk

So if GW released a new set of terrain, and it included some spruces, you could expect to see sprues of spruces in the box?

Lucid wrote:To add to this, I have also noticed a large number of people spelling Turret wrong

they tend to put Turrent . . . its Turret people

urbandictionary wrote:A common misspelling of the word "turret," usually made by people with a fourth-grade education.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=turrent


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The Bringer wrote:emporer has 317,000 results
emperor has 54,000 results

What search engine did you use? Did you type emperor correctly?

Re: the tree in the terrain set.

He's called Bob.
Formally known as Robert the Spruce.

Zefig wrote:Rogue/Rouge is another bad one too. Pretty prominent, and just as glaring.

Don't knock it, I've bagged several "Rouge Trader" bargains on eBay, long may it continue!

Similarly, even eBay suffers from dreadful spelling. Simply type "Warhammer" into the search and check the catagories...

Turrent:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/turrent

Some of these aren't actually errors, per say ...

As long as you are pointing per se at the porcelain it won't really matter.

Necroagogo wrote:Some of these aren't actually errors, per say ...

Unlike "Per say", which is another one that gets me.

It's Per se. "In itself".

Get it right or GTFO.

Think Necro was being playful with the spelling

This thread makes me lol. Bwahahahahahahaah!

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Think Necro was being playful with the spelling

Edit: left off the smilies.

The one that really gets my goat is 'sponsoons'. sponson does not rhyme with platoon. It rhymes with johnson. And please don't spell things phonetically if you've only heard them in real life. Google it first.

Platoon rhymes with spittoon, but it doesn't go ding

Sponsoon. vb. To be inundated by a deluge of advertising.

Howard A Treesong wrote:Similarly, even eBay suffers from dreadful spelling. Simply type "Warhammer" into the search and check the catagories...

You're going to kick yourself... ... categories

this thread stinks of d-baggery.

Hey, better to vent in here than to be running around like a grammar nazi, calling everyone out in whatever particular thread. It'd just be a losing battle.

to all those who spell Emperor wrong, here is the correct spelling:

EMPRAH!

Spontoon.

BloodQuest wrote:

Howard A Treesong wrote:Similarly, even eBay suffers from dreadful spelling. Simply type "Warhammer" into the search and check the catagories...

You're going to kick yourself... ... categories

Noooo!!!!

Actually, the real blind spot I have is "experiance", I can't seem to shake off spelling it that way instead of the correct "experience".

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Platoon rhymes with spittoon, but it doesn't go ding

Wait, how are people mispronouncing platoon?

A weird one I've seen is 'skellington' instead of 'skeleton'. It's rather cute, and I know at least one chap (from the North in England) who says it this way.

A couple of things we all do that are actually incorrect:

'Shoulder pads' - we all use this to mean the armoured piece that protects the shoulder. It's not a pad at all, of course; it's actually a pauldron, but I doubt anyone is going to start using that term.

'Ordinance' - I think someone else mentioned this; it's a common mis-spelling. An 'ordinance' is a statute; the correct term in WH40k is 'ordnance'.

'Metagame' - essentially, the metagame is the broader set of rules/conditions that sit above the rules of the game itself. I know this is a word that's taken on a broader meaning since it was seized upon by wargamers, but it's now used indiscriminately, usually in order to make the writer sound more authoritative than he/she actually is. How many times have you seen the assertion that "this codex changes the metagame" in a BoLS 'article'? In reality, the only changes that the writer is referring to are changes to existing army lists. Arguably the new Dark Eldar codex does actually alter the metagame, because of the way the new Pain rules work, but that's the exception. This is really just a pet peeve, and the overuse of this term isn't that common on Dakka.

Hell, even GW calls them "shoulder pads", though. But yeah, 40k is PAULDRONS!

Sidstyler wrote:Hell, even GW calls them "shoulder pads", though. But yeah, 40k is PAULDRONS!

That sounds like a new insult. This game is pauldrons!

Cavalry and Calvary drive me up a wall. Also supposebly, and rendering claws. It's RENDING for the love of all that is holy!

I admit to much of my grammar being above-average, unless I have seriously miscalculated the average that is...

Nonetheless, for whomever is the true grammar-nazi (or simply smart person) here, I ask you - as an actual question, not a test - what is the plural of Codex?
Is it Codex's? Or Codices? Or both? Or neither? Or is there no such thing as the plural of Codex and there can never be more than one in one place at a time?

This is one that has always bugged me and help would be appreciated. Cheers. x


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Ash___and wrote:A Imperial guardsmen vs Ezekiel the Chief Librarian of the Dark Angels. The Guardsmen one. He was promoted to a hero status.

And also.....

Commissar Yarrick vs a Warlord Titan. He beat the Warlord Titan..... IN COMBAT.

Marneus Calgar vs one of my scout squads. My scout squad owned him, but next turn they were obliterated by vindicators.

2 Necron lords and Night Bringer vs 1 Devastator Sergeant with a power fist. The Devastator passed everything and killed night bringer D: and died next turn from the necron lord. They were locked in combat for 3 turns.....

One of my assault squads vs a 30 death company. I still have no idea how i won that. He had horrendous roles and I saved every single one of them

One of my Captains went into combat with a Daemon Prince. My captain won and then went on to kill an entire Thousand Son's squad.

Well, here's what I found. Dictionary.com lists the plural is codices.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/codex
Wikipedia backs this one up (I'm using dictionary as a source here first, shut up)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex

But go to Wiktionary, and it gets a little more blurry.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/codex
The English form is either or - Codexes or Codices. The French variation, based on the Latin form, however, lists it as neither! The plural of Codex is, apparently, also Codex. (But it's a different word meaning 'all senses' according to the page) Go to the Latin section, and it's even more confusing - it can be spelled codices, codicum, or codicibus. (Although before you jump down my throat, these are different forms of saying the word in a sentence)

I think the final word is a trip down to Merriam-Webster's site: a search for codex gives us this:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/codex

The plural is Codices. And on one last note, both Google and Microsoft Word's spellcheckers list Codexes as an incorrect word.

I like to say codi.

Let's see if spell-check likes codices. It does! I still like to say codi.

I would never really mind how people spell it, I get the point, and it is probably one of the most unknown spellings that I can think of.

I always get Calvary and cavalry mixed X|

Pauldrons are those things that you can put on Terminator models that protect the juncture of the shoulder baffle armour and the cuirass/gorget of Terminator Armour.

Games workshop make up a lot of words, and they are usually encountered first in print. Because of this I have heard a lot of quite crazy pronunciations and missreadings of their background stuff. The few I can remember are...

Rangar in place of Ragnar
Calligar in place of Calgar
World Bearers in place of Word Bearers (At least World Bearers better than Word Eaters)
Sanguinjuice in place of Sanguinius (Also sanguineous)
Khron instead of Khorn
Nurjul instead of Nurgle
I also see Sargent in place of Sergeant quite a lot.

Just Dave wrote:Nonetheless, for whomever is the true grammar-nazi (or simply smart person) here, I ask you - as an actual question, not a test - what is the plural of Codex?
Is it Codex's? Or Codices? Or both? Or neither? Or is there no such thing as the plural of Codex and there can never be more than one in one place at a time?

So far as GW are concerned, 'Codex' is a word in the made-up 'High Gothic' language of Warhammer 40K, that just happens to bear many similarities and shared words with Latin... but it's slightly English-ised Latin, and isn't really intended to follow Latin rules of Grammar.

As such, so far as GW are concerned, the plural of Codex is 'Codexes'... It's what they use pretty consistently, and at least one of the Devs has said as much publicly in the past, including the 'made up language' explanation as to why they don't much care about what a Latin dictionary says it should be.

What the plural should be in actual Latin is only really relevant when you're discussing Latin.

In case is hasn't been mentioned, could I also submit

It's COMMISSAR, not COMMISSIONER

Todosi wrote:Cavalry and Calvary drive me up a wall. Also supposebly, and rendering claws. It's RENDING for the love of all that is holy!

I don't know, claws that render would be pretty scary!

Render
To give what is due or owed
To give in return or retribution
To reduce, convert, or melt down (fat) by heating.

Locclo wrote:Well, here's what I found. Dictionary.com lists the plural is codices.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/codex
Wikipedia backs this one up (I'm using dictionary as a source here first, shut up)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex

But go to Wiktionary, and it gets a little more blurry.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/codex
The English form is either or - Codexes or Codices. The French variation, based on the Latin form, however, lists it as neither! The plural of Codex is, apparently, also Codex. (But it's a different word meaning 'all senses' according to the page) Go to the Latin section, and it's even more confusing - it can be spelled codices, codicum, or codicibus. (Although before you jump down my throat, these are different forms of saying the word in a sentence)

I think the final word is a trip down to Merriam-Webster's site: a search for codex gives us this:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/codex

The plural is Codices. And on one last note, both Google and Microsoft Word's spellcheckers list Codexes as an incorrect word.

Aaah, thank you very much Locclo, it's appreciated. I think I'll stick to Codices as its what my Firefox spellcheck accepts.
However, I may go for codicibus for 'lols'. Thanks man!

insaniak wrote:

Just Dave wrote:Nonetheless, for whomever is the true grammar-nazi (or simply smart person) here, I ask you - as an actual question, not a test - what is the plural of Codex?
Is it Codex's? Or Codices? Or both? Or neither? Or is there no such thing as the plural of Codex and there can never be more than one in one place at a time?

So far as GW are concerned, 'Codex' is a word in the made-up 'High Gothic' language of Warhammer 40K, that just happens to bear many similarities and shared words with Latin... but it's slightly English-ised Latin, and isn't really intended to follow Latin rules of Grammar.

As such, so far as GW are concerned, the plural of Codex is 'Codexes'... It's what they use pretty consistently, and at least one of the Devs has said as much publicly in the past, including the 'made up language' explanation as to why they don't much care about what a Latin dictionary says it should be.

What the plural should be in actual Latin is only really relevant when you're discussing Latin.

Thanks Insaniak, so I can 'legally' call it pretty much anything? Hmmm...

Just Dave wrote:

Locclo wrote:Well, here's what I found. Dictionary.com lists the plural is codices.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/codex
Wikipedia backs this one up (I'm using dictionary as a source here first, shut up)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex

But go to Wiktionary, and it gets a little more blurry.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/codex
The English form is either or - Codexes or Codices. The French variation, based on the Latin form, however, lists it as neither! The plural of Codex is, apparently, also Codex. (But it's a different word meaning 'all senses' according to the page) Go to the Latin section, and it's even more confusing - it can be spelled codices, codicum, or codicibus. (Although before you jump down my throat, these are different forms of saying the word in a sentence)

I think the final word is a trip down to Merriam-Webster's site: a search for codex gives us this:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/codex

The plural is Codices. And on one last note, both Google and Microsoft Word's spellcheckers list Codexes as an incorrect word.

Aaah, thank you very much Locclo, it's appreciated. I think I'll stick to Codices as its what my Firefox spellcheck accepts.
However, I may go for codicibus for 'lols'. Thanks man!
...
...

Don't be silly, that's Ablative case!

Young people these days, etc...

Kilkrazy wrote:Don't be silly, that's Ablative case!

Please! Clearly the dative in this instance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8
Romanes eunt domus?

The thing is, if you were to collect model trees would you have a spuce sprue or a sprue of spruces?

haha! Youve seen someone use the word spruce? that is hilarious! I didnt know sprues were conifers! I just assumed everyone knew what they were talking about....im gonna keep my eye out for that mistake now! Kinda like people that say prostrate and mean prostate! or colonel and colonial....oh there are a million of them out there!

Balance wrote:

I think Dwarves vs. Dwarfs has roots in Tolkien, at least. Keep in mind that plural forms are more or less just rules of thumb, and not hard and fast rules. I've seen discussion about it before... I think it may have been an intentional stylistic choice to help differentiate "short, hairy, mountain-people born from the mountains" from "people with stunted growth that can get a reality show these days if they have an interesting job."

Also important to note that I have found numerous spelling and grammar fails on GWs website. Their online text content should not be considered authoritative.

hemingway wrote:Also important to note that I have found numerous spelling and grammar fails on GWs website. Their online text content should not be considered authoritative.

-- Not to mention the codices. Do they even have an editor at GW?

They might have an editor, but their Proof Reader leaves much to be desired.

Still, not surprised that northerners can't be arsed to get the King's English correct. There's no civilisation north of Watford and all that.