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Naming
The earliest known publication of the term
mouse as a computer pointing device is in
Bill English's 1965 publication "Computer-Aided Display Control".
[1] The online
Oxford Dictionaries entry for
mouse states the plural for the small rodent is
mice, while the plural for the small computer connected device is either
mice or
mouses. However, in the use section of the entry it states that the more common plural is
mice, and that the first recorded use of the term in the plural is
mice as well (though it cites a 1984 use of
mice when there were actually several earlier ones).
[2] The term
mice was seen in print in
"The Computer as a Communication Device", written by
J. C. R. Licklider in 1968.
The fourth edition of
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language endorses both
computer mice and
computer mouses as correct plural forms for
computer mouse. Some authors of technical documents may prefer either
mouse devices or the more generic
pointing devices. The plural
mouses treats
mouse as a "
headless noun".
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