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 Ailaros wrote:
No.

And the plural of codex is codices.

Glad to see someone on the internet knows proper English, though I never expected it to be an American, no offense.

Forcemajeure wrote:
An Englishman, Australian and a American were judging the same spelling contest...

The Englishman and the Australian would wind up with the same results.

We use some different words in general use, but all the 'official' stuff is the same.

Forcemajeure wrote:
An Englishman, Australian and a American were judging the same spelling contest...

The American took it really seriously because he was a Child champion at a Spelling Bee (sic). The Englishman and Aussie were in the bar drinking and trying to tune the Bar TV into the Cricket.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.

LumbarGibbon wrote:
Hi, I am a Dark Angels player and I just want to know do I need to buy a Space Marine Codex as well as a Dark Angels Codex

No, you don't. But there's a good chance we'll get there in the future

I use to say Codicies as well. Now I say Codexes. Why? As a Tyranid player, I always used the short form for Carnifex as Fex. Then when with the new 5th edition Tyranid codex and you could take a brood of Carnifex, saying Feicies, just didn't seem right (well maybe actually it was at least for 5th edition ) so I stick with Fexes, and now it's Codexes.

 insaniak wrote:

 Rogues Gambit wrote:

i'm of the die and codices for plural version and dice, codex for the singular

I think you have that backwards for the dice...

I know right, hahaha, I have no idea why die sounds like a plural to me but it does, I guess my brain was wired wrong or something lol.

Can anyone come up with a codex joke for an englishman, american and australian? or is that basically the thread in a nutshell lol. Still great reading.

 Godless-Mimicry wrote:

 Ailaros wrote:
No.

And the plural of codex is codices.

Glad to see someone on the internet knows proper English, though I never expected it to be an American, no offense.

Except it's not English, it's Latin. All nouns in the English language are made plurals by adding "s" or "es", with a very few exceptions - "dice" being the only one that comes to mind, although in modern times "dice" can be used singularly and plurally so even that isn't certain.

Both codexes and codices are acceptable, it's like octopi/puses/podes or cacti/cactus or gooses/geese. Claiming that one is proper and the others aren't just makes you look like a smug nerd with a need to put others down.

As an aside, I think people need to realize that dictionaries and such exist to codify english as it used, not to prescribe it. Every dialect is equally as correct as the next.

"Can you pass me my codexes?", "Yeah sure."

"Can you pass me my codices?", "Yeah sure.".

Doesn't matter to me.