Re: All hail Bob!
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 11:36:10 +0300
Message-ID: <e41ha0$tgm$1_at_emma.aioe.org>
"Gene Wirchenko" <genew_at_ucantrade.com.NOTHERE> wrote in message
news:hht662lj2b92urc4acu7sc4vi32usf8b65_at_4ax.com...
> On Thu, 11 May 2006 15:36:28 +0300, "x" <x_at_not-exists.org> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >> People make the same mistake with *completely non-latin* words such as
> >> virus, hence the catch all.
>
> Completely? "virus" comes from Latin as the definition you
> quoted shows:
>
> >vi-rus (vie'ruhs) n. pl. <-rus-es>
>
> [snipped definitions]
>
> > [1590-1600; < *L virus slime, poison;* akin to
^
> See?
Nothing to see here. Move on. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus
I found out that vir means [water] whirl and a correction in artillery. :-)
> > OOZE 2]
>
> [snip]
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Gene Wirchenko
>
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