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

From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 10:37:44 MDT

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    --- Dossy <dossy@panoptic.com> wrote:
    > On 2003.05.14, Damien Broderick
    > <damienb@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
    > > 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'.
    >
    > What's the plural of viri? *ducks and runs*

    VIRal Installation (or, to use the term from before
    this became a common technique to distribute newly
    engineered genes, Infection) is more of a concept than
    an object. Still, it is a noun, and several such
    installations can collectively be referred to as
    viris.

    Now if only I could remember which sci-fi work I read
    "viri" in... ;P

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