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- From: gaspar@urz.unibas.ch
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: VIRUS (Authorities ?)y
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.122445.41356@urz.unibas.ch>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 12:24:44 MET
- References: <1992Aug24.091920.10306@waikato.ac.nz> <1992Aug24.102643.10310@waikato.ac.nz> <1992Sep1.043427.13489@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
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- In article <1992Sep1.043427.13489@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>, jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA) writes:
- > banksie@khantazi.welly.gen.nz (Philip R. Banks) writes:
- >> The only way to stop viruses (virii?)...
- >
- > 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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- Anyway, if you'd like to use the latin plural then it would be VIRI and NOT
- VIRII.
-
- > This has been a public service announcement ;-)
- > --
- > _________________ "I'd like to answer this question in two ways:
- > /____ _ _/_ __ First in my normal voice, and then
- > // / //_//_ /_/ in a silly, high-pitched whine." (Monty Python)
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- * Laci Gaspar, University Basel, Switzerland *
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