OT--Re: Help me find 5 mistakes and than solution to thoes mistakes!
Taylor, ForrestX
forrestx.taylor at intel.com
Wed Aug 18 17:04:20 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 13:52, Andrew Dietz wrote:
> Ok, here's my biggest pet peeve:
>
> The plural of CACTUS is CACTUSES, not CACTI, and the plural of
> VIRUS is VIRUSES, not VIRII.
My pet peeve is the improper spelling of Latin plurals ;o)
The Latin plural of VIRUS would be VIRI if it had one, certainly not
VIRII. Virus never had a plural in Latin because it a mass noun, not a
count noun.
cacti is an acceptable form of plural for cactus (in Latin and English).
Forrest
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