[muglo] Re: Firewall Protection for Dial-Up System?

on 27/12/02 20:50, Eurogarth at eurogarth@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Actually, the practice (or is it practise?) of using the =B3I=B2 for plural
> forms of words comes from Greek rather than Latin . Virus is Latin and so
> the correct plural would be viruses. Greek tends to be more efficient wit=
h

The meaning of virus as we use it (the concept of viruses had to wait a few
millennia before it was developed) is _not_ Latin (or Greek) in origin, and=
,
thus, English pluralisation (?) rules apply.

Hmmm. I could've sworn that I learnt that -i is one way of making Latin
words plural... then again, it's been a few years!

Eric

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