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@verhovsky verhovsky commented Oct 25, 2024

"viri" is an old flame war/joke where "viruses" is correct and "viri" is a fake word used by some computer people for fun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_form_of_words_ending_in_-us#Virus

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=viri%2Cviruses&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=true

Other special cases that could be also removed are "cactus/cacti", "syllabus/syllabi" and "terminus/termini".

@verhovsky verhovsky changed the title viruses "viruses" instead of "viri" Oct 25, 2024
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