Re: OT: Flamebait: Text vs HTML email
Ivo Wever wrote:
>
> nate wrote:
> >
> >Even on Windows, can users of Mozilla & Netscape Mail and other
> >MUAs like Pegasus get email virii? Is it only Outlook/Express
> >and Exchange that are vulnerable?
> >
> Even more offtopic: the plural of virus isn't virii. It isn't viri either.
> Virus in Latin doesn't have the same meaning as it has in English: it
> already is a sort of plural (like rice or sand) and 'virii' simply doesn't
> exist in Latin.
vi·rus
n. pl. vi·rus·es
. . .
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,
Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
<http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=virus>
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