Terminology: Indexes V Indices
G. Norman Knight quotes Shakespeare's lines from Troilus and Cressida (I.3.344) and says:
"But the real importance of this passage is that it establishes for all time the correct literary plural; we can leave the Latin form "indices" to the mathematicians (and similarly "appendices" to the anatomists)."
The term "indexes" is used throughout the publishing industry, including in the International Standard ISO 999 - Information and documentation - Guidelines for the content, organization and presentation of indexes.
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“Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)