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Remind me why I wanted rain?
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:45:44 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote: "martin" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:30:01 +0000, Kay Easton wrote: In article , Franz Heymann writes "Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message ... The message from "Franz Heymann" contains these words: My mistake. I was thinking of both virii and spammed email. pedant Virus is a collective noun. One solitary influenza virus may be inspected under the electron microscope.microscope. Granted, I don't know whether an influenza and a legionnaire'd disease virus lying side by side should be referred to as a pair of viruses or a pair of virii. (On the assumption that the legionnaire's disease thingy is indeed a virus at all) It wouldn't be virii anyway, would it? That'd be the plural of virius. Thanks for helping me to discover that an OED CD made for Win95 won't run with WinXP :-((( If you will let me have it at a sensible secondhand price, I will take it off you. Payment will result ASAP *after* I have veruified that it will run on my Windows 98. {:-)) (All on the assumption that it is an OED and not a Concise Oxford.) Send me an address and it's yours free, but be quick as we leave for UK and Yorkshire tomorrow evening. -- Martin |
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