Jay: I haven't heard that one in years. Thanks for posting!!!
Tom
"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
| Once there was an elephant,
| Who tried to use the telephant--
| No! no! I mean an elephone
| Who tried to use the telephone--
| (Dear me! I am not certain quite
| That even now I've got it right.)
|
| Howe'er it was, he got his trunk
| Entangled in the telephunk;
| The more he tried to get it free,
| The louder buzzed the telephee--
| I fear I'd better drop the song
| Of elephop and telephong!)
| - "Eletelephony" Laura E. Richards
| --
| Regards,
| Jay Freedman
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| Tom Willett wrote:
| In the English language, the standard plural of virus is viruses.
| This is the most frequently occurring form of the plural, and refers
| to both a biological virus and a computer virus.
|
| The less frequent variations viri and virii are virtually unknown in
| edited prose, and no major dictionary recognizes them as alternative
| forms. Their occurrence can be variously attributed to
| hypercorrection formed by analogy to Latin plurals such as alumni or
| false analogy to Latin plurals such as radii; idiosyncratic use as
| jargon among a group, such as computer hackers; and deliberate word
| play, such as on BBSs (see, e.g.: leet).
|
| To complicate matters further, viri is already used in Latin as the
| plural of vir, meaning "man" (thus making viri mean "men")
|
| ;-)
|
|
|
| Tom
|
| "JoAnn Paules" wrote in message
| ...
| All over the web. There are literally thousands of site that off
| free fonts. You just need to watch out for virii, spyware, etc.
|
| --
| JoAnn Paules
| MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
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| "Paul" wrote in message
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| Where can I get additional free fonts for Word 2003 SP2 ?
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