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08/08/2002 08:50:03
 
 
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08/08/2002 07:46:31
Hilmar Zonneveld
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Cochabamba, Bolivie
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>("Viri" is the Latin plural of "virus", but most people would prefer "viruses".)
>
>Hilmar.

Hilmar,
A bit of a correction here, although "viri" & spelling variations are becoming popular as the plural (I haven't found a major anti-virus company using it yet though), it is not correct Latin :

"viri" is the plural form of "vir" meaning "man" - in Latin "virus" was a word a bit like sheep - it was used unchanged in singular & plural form. These types of words from latin tend to use "-es" to denote the plural, so "viruses" is the correct plural form of "virus".

http://www.perl.com/language/misc/virus.html
http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/plural-of-virus.html
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