At 09:25 AM 4/29/2006, Jim Stapleton wrote:
Virii would be the correct spelling we biologists use, but viruses is standard in normal-people-speak, and gets the meaing across.

Actually I was reading up on correct vs. common plurals after a little debate around the office. It would appear the 'ii plural or virus is NOT correct. See:

http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html
http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/g63.html

   -Wayne
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