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now, i'm useless at grammer and spelling. but i was wondering what the real plural of viruses are (is?) when i sawed this on the street.

i think it probably is viruses rather than virii.
http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/stuff3/2006/03/DSC08972-thumb.jpg

but on the other side of the sign it was missing the final 's'
http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/stuff3/2006/03/DSC08973-thumb.jpg

having different spelling on each side suggests they created different versions from scratch. Someone should refer them to a computer centre to tell them they can use computers to avoid having to do such things (they even have speling detecters).

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Matts said:

It's "viruses".

The word "virus" did not have a plural form in Latin, therefore in English it is pluralised the English way.

See
http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/FGA/plural-of-virus.html
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus

funkypancake Author Profile Page said:

bah. what did the romans ever do for us ?

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