Re: YAEPT: uu/ii (< Quick Latin pronunciation question)

I am utterly confused. What are crosstown bi runs, and what are bii (and
what have they got to do with virii)??
Eugene

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:14 AM, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:

> Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
>> What about bi?  As in, crosstown bi run all night long? :)
>>
>
> Oh them! Yes, plenty of 'viri' on them. But it's only on bii that you have
> worry about 'virii'    :)
>
>
>>
>> On 5/29/08, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
>>
>>> Mark J. Reed wrote:
>>>
>>>> One must be especially careful of virii in public places, such as
>>>> sports stadia, musea, bi...
>>>>
>>> Nah - _stadia_ and _musea_ are correctly formed Latin plurals; the only
>>> bugs you have to watch out for in those places are _vira_.
>>>
>>> _virii_ are a problem in places like stadii, stadiae, museae etcetra
>>> [sic]        :)
>>>
>>
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