Virus Scan Order

[Alex Neuman]

Viri is "male" in latin.

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On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions wrote:

>
> FYI - the plural of virus is viruses

I went to our Classics dept a while back and asked our resident scholar,
who speaks Latin, Greek, Hebrew, English, Polish, and probably other
languages.  She said that correct Latin is "viri", not "virii".  But she
also said that "viri" will look strange to most people and suggested that
the English translation to "viruses" would be correct.  Being in
academia, I just had to ask.  There ya go.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

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