Ben, Wind down your pedant filter slightly hey! There's a good lad. G.
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Gavin Wilby <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I dunno - a word that I made up - its obvious that it used to denote > > multiple virus's. > > What does the virus own? > > To form a plural in English, on a word that ends in an "s", use > "es"; thus, "viruses". As one wag once put it: > > An apostrophe does not mean, "Look out! Here comes an 's'!" > > ;-) > > I've heard it argued that there is no Latin word "virus", and as > such, one should follow the English pluralization rules, not Latin. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > -- Gavin Wilby, Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk Sent from Isle Of Man ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
