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Offline mdwh2

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Re: Viruses
« on: August 21, 2003, 11:39:14 PM »
No it isn't.

In Latin or in English, just because a word ends "-us" doesn't mean it's pluralised to "-i". See http://www.perl.com/language/misc/virus.html.

And to be particularly pedantic, as that page points out, "virii" is especially wrong - if you were assuming that "virus" was pluralised in the same manner as "radius", then the plural would be "viri";)