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.
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but on the other side of the sign it was missing the final ‘s’
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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).
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
bah. what did the romans ever do for us ?
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