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Poll

Do you use Viruses or Virii?

Viruses88%88% - 23
Virii11%11% - 3
Total: 26
2008-02-23 10:41:31
HurricaИe
Banned
+877|6264|Washington DC
According to Wikipedia, the correct plural form of virus is viruses. Yet one would think that, like the word radius (whose plural is radii), virus would be pluralized as virii.

Virii looks cooler and sounds cooler, but alas I use viruses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus
2008-02-23 10:43:13
messfeeder
Member
+31|6831|Gotham
probably b/c there's no "i" before the "u"
2008-02-23 10:43:47
trippy982
Member
+34|6701
You may want to update the poll as "viri" is also a correct form of the plural word virus.
2008-02-23 10:45:33
S.Lythberg
Mastermind
+429|6750|Chicago, IL
Viruses, as viri would be pronounced veer-ee, and virii has an extra i...
2008-02-23 10:48:43
Vilham
Say wat!?
+580|7069|UK
The plural of virus is virus i thought.
2008-02-23 10:53:37
HurricaИe
Banned
+877|6264|Washington DC

S.Lythberg wrote:

Viruses, as viri would be pronounced veer-ee, and virii has an extra i...
I believe it would be pronounced "vie-ree"
2008-02-23 13:56:43
TravisC555
Member
+118|6522|Cox Convention Center, OK
Never heard Virii before...
2008-02-23 14:09:04
avman633
Member
+116|6667

messfeeder wrote:

probably b/c there's no "i" before the "u"
The words are different. Radius has an I before the U. Virus doesn't. Thats why its viruses
2008-02-23 22:20:22
War Man
Australians are hermaphrodites.
+564|7017|Purplicious Wisconsin

TravisC555 wrote:

Never heard Virii before...
Me neither.
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