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Grant Sewell wrote: | On Tue, 3 May 2005 09:15:39 +0100 (BST) | John Palmer wrote: | | |>See http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html |>which covers the philological issues quite learnedly. |> | | | That was a good read. I particularly like the way the author can jump from deep discussion of Latin voices to "Virii is still completely silly, so don't do that; otherwise, everyone will know you're just a blathering script kiddie." :D | | I still prefer the term "virii", although a question should be raised as to whether "virus" needs a plural at all! Think about it: | "The word virion or viron is used to refer to a single infective viral particle." (again, from wikipedia) | If "virion" (or "viron") is a singular, then "virus" could be argued to be the plural (I know, I know... mass nouns are still singular) in which case "virii" or "viruses" is not required :D | | Grant. | | (PS How about we just settle for the term "Windows add-ons")
How about we just settle for the term "Windows" or.. "KRNL32" ? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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