[PLUG] Alea jacta est*

[Michael Barnes]

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 2:29 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

>
> *Latin, commonly translated as 'the die is cast.' In fact, the English
> expression refers to 'alea' as 'die' (one of a pair of dice), but the
> Romans had no dice; the alea was a game piece that was thrown during
> play, but it wasn't actually what we think of today as a die. And
> while I'm at it, what idiot decided that the plural of die should be
> dice?
> _______
>

If you apply reverse logic, analogous to mice, shouldn't the singular be
'douse' instead of 'die'? English is such a fickle language.