> > 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. >
That about covers it, but I did not want to lay the big latin grammar book on them (-:
