Mike McCarty wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>Per Jessen wrote: >>> >>>>Fora and vira should both be the proper plural terms (for forums > > [snip] > > AIUI > > "Vira" is not and cannot be a word. The word "virus" in Latin is > a mass noun, something like "air" in English. It has no proper > plural. It means something like "pervading evil influence".
What can I say - in Danish it's used quite commonly as the plural of virus. Given that it's also listed in wikipedia, I would say it IS already a word, even its correct use may be debated. /Per Jessen, Zürich _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
