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

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