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Tim, pardon my spelling error there – I did mean styli or styluses. Seems strange that a word can have 2 valid plurals! If you get 4 pages on a word such as this, it sounds like this OED will be worth it. I am actually in a survey company in Malaysia. The styli (styluses?) we use are in echo-sounders that we use to measure water depths when doing oil exploration. Malaysia is an ex-British colony & has a British education system & spelling, but Microsoft refuses to accept this. Our version of Word for Windows has an American dictionary & I have been unable to get anyone from Microsoft to admit guilt & send us a free English dictionary. Our old Word 5.0 had both! I guess this is the price we must pay for progress? Thanks for the info anyway, if I tell the boss I can give him 4 pages on the subject I may be able to sway him. Dave