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On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 08:19:42PM +0100, Stephen Davies wrote:
> /. has a posting about how Linux can be infected with virii when using Wine.
Virii... if it was Latin, that would be the plural of "virius" (not
a Latin word, to the best of my knowledge). If you were to follow a
naive pluralisation, assuming that it's a second-declension noun, then
you would get "viri".
However, from a classisict's point of view, "virus" is a (rarely-
encountered) word meaning "toxic fluid". No plural has been seen in
the historical record, and it's not clear what plural it should take,
if any -- in its few occurrences in historical texts, it's a mass
noun.
The English medical or technology term "virus" (an infectious
particle or a form of malware, respectvely) has the perfectly ordinary
Anglo-Saxon plural "viruses".
Can we *please* put an end to the misguided "viri", the ignorant
"virii", and the simply painful "virri"?
Hugo.
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