On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:01:05AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..no rule witout exeption: these 2 minutes _are_ useful in tarpits, > to help slow vira propagation:
That's a new plural of "virus" to me ... ["viri" and "virii" are both wrong. The first is made up by assuming that "virus" is a Latin masculine second declension noun, which it's not (it's neuter), and "viri" is actually the plural of "vir" and means "men". The second is just utterly weird, though strangely popular, and is constructed on top of a made-up second declension noun, "virius". "vira" is probably better than anything else, because at least it's neuter, but really seems more like the plural of "virum". Anyway, there are no recorded instances of a Latin plural of "virus", because its meaning back then was abstract and not something you could really pluralize. The only English plural of the word is simply "viruses". This concludes today's pedantry.] Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
