On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 18:13, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 04:28, Dan Hensley wrote:
> >     "Virii" is the plural of "virus" (I bet that was obvious :).  I know a
> > lot of people use "viruses", so it may be acceptable when talking about
> 
> I hate to start some kind of a war here, but virii is not a word. :)
> 
> The plural of virus is in fact viruses.  It's a very common
> misconception that virii is its plural.  This page gives a very good
> synopsis:
> 
>    http://www.perl.com/language/misc/virus.html
> 
> Cheers,
> Jason.

Ok, I stand corrected.  Everyone seems to like viruses better than virii
anyway.  But I stand by my apostrophe statements.  For more information
to those who have questions about how to use them (because a great many
seem to have trouble with them, and not because they're hard to type),
see

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_apost.html

Dan


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