Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[Hans Nowak]

dewatf wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 18:28:36 +1300, "Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)"
> <g2h5dqi002 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hans Nowak wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hmm, if I recall correctly, in Latin the plural of 'virus' is 'virus'.
>>
>>Actually, the last discussion of this that I saw (can't remember where)
>>came to the conclusion that the word 'virus' didn't *have* a plural
>>in Latin at all, because its original meaning didn't refer to something
>>countable.
> 
> 
> 'virus' (slime, poison, venom) is a 2nd declension neuter noun and
> technically does have a plural 'viri'. 

Doesn't it belong to the group that includes 'fructus'?  Of course this has 
nothing to do with the plural used in English, but still... :-)

This page, which has a lot of info on this issue, seems to think so:

http://www.perl.com/language/misc/virus.html

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