Plural of syntax? As in "Yeah, I wrote this great parser, and it understands all 3 ______ of Python"
"syntagma"? (referenced as one possible incorrect pluralization)
- Steve and 4 other people
"syntaxes"
- OCoG of FF, Jimminy
I agree with Jimminy.
- Stephen Mack
And I know it's an example, but I want to nit. I'd probably call them in that specific case, "Python", "branches of Python syntax", assuming you're talking about <2.6, 2.7, and 3.x. Since it is primarily one syntax, with breaking but minimal revision.
- OCoG of FF, Jimminy
Or you could be talking about idiomatic styles, because their are several thanks to the flexibility of the language.
- OCoG of FF, Jimminy
http://english.stackexchange.com/questio... "syntaces" if you want a spoof plural
- Glen Campbell
Syntaxes. [Hippo.com: What is the plural of syntax? http://www.wordhippo.com/what-is...]
- Sean McBride
Rewrite to say "..all three types of Python syntax" ?
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
What's the plural of "tax"? So by extension...
- Andrew C (✔)
Well, "syntax" comes from Greek "syntaxis" and the plural would be "syntaxeis", but if you're going from Latin "syntaxis" then it would be "syntaxes".
- Victor Ganata
[Google; "syntaxes" http://www.google.com/#q=&quo...] "syntaxes" in context, in real world usage -- nearly 2.5 million hits.
- Sean McBride
grep -i syntaxes /usr/share/dict/words -- this means that "syntaxes" is not in the standard Linux dictionary, and thus, shows up as a misspelled word.
- Steve and 4 other people
The earlier syntaxis was disrupted by synuber and left us with syntaxes.
- Micah
The wages of syntax are deathtax.
- Stephen Mack
It may be syntactics, or just syntax. Syntax is the group of syntactic elements, which is pluralized to syntactics (even though it can also be used in the singular). So syntax and syntactics are roughly equivalent in meaning and purpose, and could show in substitution a shared singular/plural form. Of course, syntactics is apparently not a word according to Chrome's dictionary.
- OCoG of FF, Jimminy
Syntactics refers to the domain of syntax in general. Syntaxes refers to multiple individual syntactic systems.
- Sean McBride