The plural of Virus

[Rutvik Dave]

Singular 'Virus' is enough to cause damage. It's like shooting twice with .45 ;)

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[Karen Mitchelle]

Good point there. But, is not always like that. For example, the word 'alumnus' is singular, and 'alumni' is its plural form. I don't know if this one has a connection, but 'Us' and 'I' are pronoun. ;)

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[Karen Mitchelle]

yes, it is.[^] :-D

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[PIEBALDconsult]

That kind. :cool:

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[OriginalGriff]

So... Would a number of groups of octopi be a consortia?

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[Sander Rossel]

Viral?

It's an OO world.

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{
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{
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}

[Rage]

Rutvik Dave wrote:

It's like shooting twice with .45

I wonder what reference is that :rolleyes: Hope he sees it !

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[Nagy Vilmos]

Links are hard, especially when it's your own site. :laugh:

[CPallini]

:laugh:

Veni, vidi, vici.

[CPallini]

Ask my sign's author.

Veni, vidi, vici.

[BobJanova]

Well that would be wrong even if you were being a classical dick about it, it would be 'viri'.

[Corporal Agarn]

Don't call me Shirley.

[Lost User]

I didn't. I called Chris "Shirley"

[Corporal Agarn]

I think you need an Airplane[^] ride.

[Lost User]

No, no no no no, NO. Y'see, I SAID SHIRLEY when the meaning required was Surely - a la Airplane (aka Flying High) - so I WAS MAKING THE JOKE IN THE FIRST PLACE. (well, I say joke - it was funny when Leslie first used it)

[Corporal Agarn]

Just joking with you. :) I could have the best joke writer in the business give me a joke and it would fall flat.

[Fabio Franco]

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[realJSOP]

The plural of "virus" is "Windows".

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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[Peter R Fletcher]

Resuscitating my high school Latin: Treating 'virus' as a Latin noun and assuming that the normal form is the nominative singular form (the form used when it is the subject of a sentence), the 'us' ending means that it has to be either first or fourth declension. If it is first declension, the nominative plural form would be viri; if fourth declension, it would be 'virus' (spelt the same but pronounced differently ('viroose')). 'Vira' would be the plural form of a first declension neuter noun whose singular form was 'virum'. In fact, the origin of the word virus is (according to my ancient version of the Oxford English Dictionary) a (first declension) Latin adjective, so things get a bit more complicated, since a singular noun derived from it (fairly common Latin practice) might well be 'virum' ('poisonous thing'), with 'vira' as a plural, but since the standard singular form is the masculine 'virus', we are back to 'viri' as a plural. Having said all this, we are speaking and writing English (or, in some cases, American!), and it is common and perfectly proper to form plurals of singular words taken over from other languages by adding standard English plural endings, so my usage preference is actually 'viruses'.

[TheGreatAndPowerfulOz]

:laugh:

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