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#1 2006-08-11 09:09:17

Jim Dixon
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From: St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Registered: 2006-08-11
Posts: 44

Appendix >> appendex

By analogy, I suppose, with “index.” An index is something that appears at the end of a book, so why not “appendex”?

Citations:

“I have also—with no small degree of trepidation—added an appendex containing profiles of various cultures and religions.”—Caring for Patients from Different Cultures
By Geri-Ann Galanti
Preface to the Third Edition, page ix
(Viewable at http://books.google.com/)

“Light Impressions sells an inexpensive hydrometer to measure the humidity level
in your workspace (see Appendex E).”—The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes
By Christopher James
Page 5
(Viewable at http://books.google.com/)

“Algebraic facts are described in appendex A.”—Geometry and Quantum Field Theory
edited by Daniel S Freed, Karen K Uhlenbeck
Page 328
(Viewable at http://books.google.com/)

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