Re: [OT] Virii (sic)

[Riley Williams]

Hi.

 >> on average, there's a timelapse of 53 hours from a virii first

 > For some reason, seeing "virii" is somewhat painful to my eye. I
 > know, people invent fantasy plurals, like Vaxen and
 > Unices/Unixen, but somehow this is worse, yes indeed, it is
 > badder.

 > [The singular is virus. The plural in English is viruses. In
 > Latin there is no plural - it is even debatable whether virus is
 > a noun in Latin - in any case it is indeclinable.]

During my medical training, it was made abundantly clear that the
plural of virus is virii. Since the whole idea of a computer virus
comes from the medical world, I'd have to assume the terminology came
with it.

I'll stick with what my training taught me.

Best wishes from Riley.

PS: Plural of bacteria is bacterium, from the same source.