Re: [NTLK] newtontalk Digest V2 #693

From: A. Cassady (cassadya_at_dimensional.com)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 19:00:14 EDT


(unlurk)
Virii would be a plural of Virius... following the same linguistic rule
as Radii... If you want to pluralize Virus with that rule it would
become Viri... but I guess that wouldn't be as cool. I thought I'd
seen the last of that spelling when I got off the local bulliten boards.

-Andy

(/unlurk)

On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 11:24 AM, Filmer, Paul E. wrote:
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>>> But you don't get infected by Klez on Mac, do you ?! (I am a Mac user
>>> that
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>> never bothers with virii...)
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>> replay rant - http://128.150.4.33/html/-88186101$431.nsd
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>Obviously, the correct plural is "virusseses".
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>-Bill
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