Re: [Evolution] FRQ: Pipe incoming mail through AntiVirus tools

[Matthias Hentges <eebe gmx net>]

Am Don, 2002-07-11 um 10.28 schrieb Dan Hensley:

> > BTW: Whats the correct english plural for "virus" ?
> > (as you can undoubtedly see, english is not my native language :)
>
> Hi Matthias,
>       "Virii" is the plural of "virus" (I bet that was obvious :).  I know a
> lot of people use "viruses", so it may be acceptable when talking about
> a computer virus.  

Thank you very much for enlightening me.
I think it wont be easy for me to get used to use "virii" instead of
viruses :)


> I also thought I'd point out a few others, since
> you're nice enough to ask about "virus".  "Didnt" and "whats" require
> apostrophes, since they are contractions.  In other words, "didn't" and
> "what's" are correct, since you are trying to say "did not" and "what
> is".  Also, "its" requires an apostrophe if you are trying to say "it
> is" (again, a contraction).

Yeah, well heh that was just my laziness coming through ;)
(/em takes a mental note to use apostrophes in the future)
Maybe i should just get spellchecking working lol.



>       By the way, your English is quite good.  Much better than my German. :)
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