OT--Re: Help me find 5 mistakes and than solution to thoes mistakes!

[Taylor, ForrestX]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 13:52, Andrew Dietz wrote:
> Ok, here's my biggest pet peeve:
> 
> The plural of CACTUS is CACTUSES, not CACTI, and the plural of
> VIRUS is VIRUSES, not VIRII.

My pet peeve is the improper spelling of Latin plurals ;o)

The Latin plural of VIRUS would be VIRI if it had one, certainly not
VIRII.  Virus never had a plural in Latin because it a mass noun, not a
count noun.

cacti is an acceptable form of plural for cactus (in Latin and English).

Forrest