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- Subject: Re: VIRUS (Authorities ?)y
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.043427.13489@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 04:34:27 GMT
- Sender: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
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- banksie@khantazi.welly.gen.nz (Philip R. Banks) writes:
- > The only way to stop viruses (virii?)...
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- I have verified this one with dictionaries - VIRUS plural is VIRUSES.
- It is a word that is rooted in the latin (for poison, I think), but
- it is NOT pluralisationated ;-) by making it VIRII.
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- This has been a public service announcement ;-)
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