From: Chad Perrin <code@...>
Date: 2012-01-26T12:27:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Web Application from Scratch - like PHP

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 04:10:05AM +0900, Bartosz Dziewo��ski wrote:
> 2012/1/25 Alex Chaffee <alex@stinky.com>:
> > Will they finally change the name of their middleware components to
> > conform to English grammar?
> >
> > ("middleware" is a mass noun, like "furniture" and "water", and it
> > makes my skin crawl every time I read "that's a great middleware" or
> > the like.)
> 
> English is not my first language, but I'll dare to disagree with you
> here. "ware", or "middleware", for me looks like a perfect regular
> noun and I see no error in pluralizing it  -  "wares" or "middlewares"
> sound just fine and keep the meaning of "multiple items of <x>", while
> "waters" or "furnitures" don't.

Cookware.  Silverware.  Dinnerware.  Software.

Not cookwares, silverwares, dinnerwares, or softwares.

It's not even wares.  It's "Warez!", or something like that.

Hope that helps.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]