Re: There's no such word as `virii'

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 09:51:55 MDT

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    At 09:08 AM 5/14/03 +0200, Alper Çugun wrote:

    >You're right that the plural should be viruses but this bit about Latin
    >plurals is incorrect.

    >status and hiatus only change
    >the length of the final vowel; genus goes to genera; corpus goes to
    >corpora.

    Fair enough. My bad for an improper generalization, especially in view of
    Lee Crocker's further elucidation. I'll have to throw myself under several
    bii. No, hang on, that might be misunderstood as well.

    Damien Broderick

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