The plural of 'mouse' is 'mice'

but louse => lice

(please tag "plural")

Mmmm, plurals.

I know people who distinguish between a computer mouse and a house mouse when deriving plurals. Such people derive the computer mouse plural as "mouses", you'll even see that usage in that paragon of reliability Wikipedia.

I have spent a lot of time among people who distinguish between a plural of one type of something and plurality of types of something.

One sheep, many sheep of the same kind, a field with many sheeps.

One fish, many fish, all the fishes in the sea.

Not that I'm saying such usage is normative....

there are a few other good discussions of this on jyte.

pedants tend to be obsessed with things other people take for granted, especially cramming all they can into their verbal bandwidth.

'Hice' is the singular of 'house' if you live in certain areas around here.

Back in the 80s and early 90s people liked to say that the correct way to refer to computer mice was "mouses", not "mice". That may have actually been the convention back then, but it clearly isn't any longer and the people who still cling to it are just trying to push a dead idea on us.

Does that mean the plural of "spouse" is "spice"?

I've always thought so.