virii On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Felmon Davis <dav...@union.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2016, Doug wrote: > > I agree that I brought up the word "manuscript" since something like a >> term-paper or a dissertation might frequently >> be called by that term, and I thought that the derivation from the Latin >> would be of interest. To those interested in >> language, it might be noted that "manus" even tho it has a masculine >> ending, is feminine, not only in Latin, but in >> Italian, (la mano) French, and even in the non-Romance language, German >> (die Hand). >> > > I do love a little lightly spread pedantry! > > so how do you guys pluralize 'virus'? > > f. > > -- > Felmon Davis > > Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. > -- Mark Twain > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
