Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 05-Feb-2001 Moritz Schulte wrote: > > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> there are no known virus for UNIX. > > > > Uhm, I think there are virii for Unix. I did a quick search and found > > some information on Unix virii; I also read that the first systems > > affected by virii were Unix systems. > > > > not really. But there are plenty of web pages with the info you seek. > > However, there is no such word as 'virii'. There is one virus and two > viruses. > The word virus is like the english work fish.
To get _really_ picky: it is from the Latin, is 5th declension, not 2nd (like most of the "-us" and "-um" words), and while the singular and plural look identical, in the plural, as I recall (it's been a long time since my last Latin class), the emphasis is on the second syllable, and it is pronounced more like veeroos. The plural should have a bar over the "u". Try to portray _that_ in mutt. Viruses works fine for me, too. Cam
