Well, to be technical, it should be "viruses" in English, although "virii" or "viri" is (or used to be) common in computer and early internet circles. "Virae", "virusen", "viru... viri... vi... nasty things" and other forms are used, either in jest or self-recognition of one's lack of complete linguistic knowledge. While the word has no plural in Classical Latin, Neo-Latin defines "vira", "viris" and "virorum". It can also be regarded as having no plural, although that doesn't seem to be common in English. Programmers are, however, known to have a somewhat humorous take on English, so sticking to "viruses" is probably a little boring... :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_form_of_words_ending_in_-us http://www.ofb.net/~jlm/virus.html Paul On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 11:13:09 +0200 Luuk <luu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12-07-2013 11:56, Luuk wrote: > > virusses (or virae) > > it should be: > virus > > thanks, > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
