[Fedora] Re: Help me find 5 mistakes and than solution to thoes mistakes!

Aaron Gaudio prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org
Fri Aug 20 21:55:46 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 22:52 +0100, Robert Crowther wrote:

> Apparently for latin viri is correct:
> http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe?virus , but the latin
> meaning is a bit divorced from the current english meaning.
> 

Well, everything I've read (except the above) has said that "viri" is
not correct for latin (and therefore english) because there was no
plural form of the latin word (kinda like there's no plural for
"darkness" I suppose).

But I guess the really important thing is that someone understands you.
If they can correct you when you say "virii" then you probably got your
message across. :)





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