Re: virii

[Ivo Wever <I.J.W.Wever@student.tudelft.nl>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
> Ivo Wever wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I think that Nate was quoting me there, and I know that virii isn't
> a real word (and gnome-spell reminds me in squiggly red lines!).  
> It's mock-latin (just like, apparently, some like to write in
> mock-german).
>  
Ah, OK, I didn't understand that. Is the Latin plural of museum:
musea, accepted in English BTW?

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Ivo



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