I think this is not a problem of someone being pedantic , but for the sake of clarification!
My , someone is working hard at point-scoring today.
He must have missed me dreadfully during the recent connection problems.
Tell me, TH Lawrence, what’s a bar? And what would the various plurals be?
How would you differentiate between any of these:
users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/homonyms.htm
You seemed to have changed the mice which I wrote, which could be a plural form of the animal as well as the computer mouse, which was the main basis of my question to mouses .
I wrote for you to decipher which of the mice I am talking about.
You seem to have missed the point.
I changed it for a reasont, and I even told you that I was changing it! if you look at the original message before the part you quote you will see I said:
However, if you wished to reverse your argument and say:
The mouses in the house, are getting on Mr. Ben’s nerves this morning!..