From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 22:58:18 MDT
It's like fingernails down a blackboard, it's like it's for its and its for
it's, but stupider, so here's the thing again:
As Lee Crocker pointed out the other day, the plural of `virus' is
`viruses', damn it. If you wish to swagger and show how much Latin you
know, and sound all medical and hi-tech, and like that, the plural is `viri'.
NOT `virii'.
To make a plural from a word ending with the suffix -us, take it off and
add the suffix -i to the stem. Not two, three or more, just the one. It's
simple! It's time-saving! It preserves otherwise wasted pixels!
See, that wasn't so hard?
Damien Broderick
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