Plural form of virus

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From: AWINFHAH
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1989 17:02

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There has been a lot of talking on the net about the virus phenomenon
lately. Many authors used nearly as many different plural forms of the
word virus: viruses, viri, vires and even virii. Unfortunately none of
these is correct in my opinion.

A shallow survey of latin reveals the following information:

Singular    vir     vis         virus
Plural      viri    vires       virus
Meaning     man     power,force poison,venom

Therefore the correct plural of virus is.... virus. In order to avoid
confusion I suggest that 'viruses' be used (the English plural of virus).

Roger Hunen.

Disclaimer #1 : my opinions are my own, and not even known to my employer.
Disclaimer #2 : my opinions are better than my typing.

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