Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: FOUO No one 'invented' the English language. Celtic ( pronounced kel-tik) was the language of the people of England before the arrival of the Romans in 43 AD. The common people continued to speak Celtic while the Romans and the English nobility spoke Latin. In the four hundreds, the Romans left England. The land was taken over by Vikings from Denmark. They spoke a Germanic language. This soon mixed with the Latin. In 1066 England was conquered by French speaking people from Normandy. Now French started to become mixed with the other languages. Because French has its beginning in Latin ( lingua latina ) there was another dose of Latin injected into the Language. So, you see, English was not invented at one time, but evolved over many years. The one problem that this caused was pronouncion. People took the easiest pronouncion no matter the spelling. So now we have many words that seem to have no connection to their pronouncion. An example, the word knife, in German ( a phonetic language ) would be spelled NEIF . The original pronouncion was Kah-nee-feh.
-----Original Message----- From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 2:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Haw-haw: New Mac OS X email worm discovered Bill, A thread thats starts "Haw Haw" cannot hope to be considered "professional", and cannot hope to get a professional response. Please don't lecture me on the use of the English language, my country invented it for goodness sake. Its a light hearted topic, with light hearted responses - right up until the point you put your "two pennorth" in. g. On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Bill Monicher <bmacd5...@gmail.com> wrote: Gavin, Grab a dictionary. In the olden days, they were books that listed words. Lots of 'em -- along with their plurals etc. Nowadays, try http://www.onelook.com/?w=virus&ls=a <blockedhttp://www.onelook.com/?w=virus&ls=a> Although your meaning was clear, Ben is correct. His (and my) pedantry aside, using cutesy variations for common words in a forum of professionals it at best, well, unprofessional. At worst, you look like a dweeb. If you can find even *one* dictionary that lists "virii" I'll apologize. Before you spend a lot of time looking, though, I'll give you a hint. No dictionary referenced by OneLook even lists the word "virii". There are two entries returned by the search, though. One contains the phrase, "generally considered incorrect" and the other is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus <blockedhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus> Check it out. Regards, --BM On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Gavin Wilby <gavin.wi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ben, > Wind down your pedant filter slightly hey! There's a good lad. > G. > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Gavin Wilby <gavin.wi...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > I dunno - a word that I made up - its obvious that it used to denote >> > multiple virus's. >> >> What does the virus own? >> >> To form a plural in English, on a word that ends in an "s", use >> "es"; thus, "viruses". As one wag once put it: >> >> An apostrophe does not mean, "Look out! Here comes an >> 's'!" >> >> ;-) >> >> I've heard it argued that there is no Latin word "virus", and as >> such, one should follow the English pluralization rules, not Latin. >> >> -- Ben >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ <blockedhttp://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> > ~ > > > > -- > Gavin Wilby, > Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby <blockedhttp://twitter.com/gavin_wilby> > GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk <blockedhttp://www.stoof.co.uk> > Sent from Isle Of Man > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ <blockedhttp://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> > ~ -- Gavin Wilby, Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby <blockedhttp://twitter.com/gavin_wilby> GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk <blockedhttp://www.stoof.co.uk> Sent from Isle Of Man Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: FOUO ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
