I love the discussions I bump into online

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1536343]

Also - new word of the day "Hackanonical".

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[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Mock fancy plurals like 'boxen' for 'box' I find irritating and silly.

You might as well say 'hice' for 'house'. And then you wouldn't even sound like a geek, just silly.

[andrewducker]

Hice is the singular for house, if you're posh enough :->

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[kurosau.livejournal.com]

There aren't multiple of me, so the answer doesn't matter.

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

Alexeses

[pennski.livejournal.com]

I know an Alastair whose boss called him Alice. I don't think it went down too well.

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

Not enough poll options!

Aleex (like feet)
Alex (like fish)
Alexae (like formulae)
Alexim (like Hebrew)
Alexis (like the Dynasty character)
Alexodes (like octopodes)
Alexx (like ... err ... well it makes a certain sort of sense to me - you would probably pronounce it like "Alexes")

There are probably others that I can't think of off the top of my head. And variants, of course, like Alexs or Alexii.

I expect a significant number of people - perhaps a plurality - would write "Alex's" in defiance of grammatical prescriptivists.

My own favoured option would probably be "Alexes" but pronounced with a long final e (like axes, in the sense of x and y rather than choppers that cut down trees).

[0olong.livejournal.com]

'Alices' seems an obvious one, if confusing, by analogy with index/indices.