At 15:40 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
so how do you guys pluralize 'virus'?
This guy says that the Latin "virus" means something like "slime" and
is a mass noun, having no plural: if you add slime to the slime you
already have, you get more slime, not *"two slimes".
In English, "virus" is a count noun, needing a plural. Since the word
doesn't have a Latin plural, the only possibility is a regular
English plural, "viruses".
The idea that all Latin nouns ending -us form plurals ending -i is specious.
Brian Barker
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