Re: A true touch of insanity?

Ash Wyllie wrote:

> Erik Max Francis opined
> 
>> Michael Ash wrote:
> 
>>> I normally don't care about stuff like this but this one just grates
on me 
>>> for some reason: the plural of "virus" is "viruses". "Virii" comes
from 
>>> trying to pluralize "virus" in the Latin style, and failing strangely.
> 
>> Right, it bugs me too for some reason.  Even if that were the correct 
>> pluralization method, _virii_ would still be wrong.
> 
> Wouldn't it be *viri* ?

If such an etymological reconstruction were valid in the first place, 
yes.  The proper plural, though, is _viruses_.

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