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Re: virus detection



> 
> To get _really_ picky: it is from the Latin, is 5th declension, not 2nd (like
> most
> of the "-us" and "-um" words), and while the singular and plural look
> identical,
> in the plural, as I recall (it's been a long time since my last Latin class),
> the
> emphasis is on the second syllable, and it is pronounced more like veeroos. 
> The
> plural should have a bar over the "u".  Try to portray _that_ in mutt. 
> Viruses
> works fine for me, too.
> 

That about covers it, but I did not want to lay the big latin grammar book on
them (-:



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