[K12OSN] Plural of Virus (was Antivirus program for Linux)

[Jeff Kinz]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:11:55AM -0400, Henry Hartley wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com 
> >> Calvin Park
> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 10:51 AM

Henry - you can fix your email client so it quotes properly, see: 
outlook express: http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
To fix Outlook: http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/

> >> There are VERY few virusi (sp?) for Linux.
> 
> Since K12LTSP is targeted at the education community...
> The plural of virus is viruses.  
> 
> http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html

Both virus and viri are correct and will be understood. (despite my
enormous respect for Rick Moen)

Viri may be better because its shorter.

Correct language usage is always determined by common usage and common
usage is always, everchanging.

One of my favorite quotes:
"If anybody ever tells you that you're using the language incorrectly,
just yell 'prescriptive grammarian!' at the top of your voice and all
the linguists in the building will run over and surround the guy' and
then they'll rough him up."




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