[muglo] Re: Firewall Protection for Dial-Up System?
- From: Harold Merton <harold.merton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 13:57:10 -0500
Better not check with her Joan - she might be disappointed that you were not
sure!
R & J Winfield wrote:
> I agree with Eric. My Latin teacher was very specific. Thus the endings
> in Latin for virus would have been:
> us, e, o, um, e, o in the singular and
> i, orum, is, os, i, is in the plural.
>
> She had a habit of drawing a circle on the board and asking you to stick
> your nose in it if you goofed up. So I learned those endings really
> quickly and very thoroughly. By the way, she is still very much alive
> and I could check with her if you wish.
>
> Joan
>
> Eric D. wrote:
> >
> > 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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