Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: >>Phoenix ->Phoenices? >> >>(by analogy with >>Matrix ->Matrices >>Radix -> Radices >>Vertex -> Vertices) >> >>\Steve > >I don't like this one at all... Sounds too much like "Feces"... Which >Tortaalik (or Illista) might deserve, but Zerika certainly does not. > > > But as grade school kids know - every name can be made fun of. You had to stretch that a lot to ignore that syllable though. vortex - vortices latex - latices or sex - sexes hex - hexes rex - rex wax - waxes or crisis - crises