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Re: poll ideas quest

by gregor42 (Parson)
on Jan 26, 2006 at 19:42 UTC ( [id://525828]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to poll ideas quest

Two humble submissions:

Poll 1:

What is the correct plural form of the word "virus"?

  • viruses
  • virus
  • viri
  • virii
  • CowboyNeal

Poll 2:

What is your favorite meta-syntactic variable name?

  • foo
  • bar
  • baz
  • qux
  • quux
  • jorge
  • grault
  • garply
  • waldo
  • fred
  • plugh
  • xyzzy
  • thud
  • CowboyNeal


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Re^2: poll ideas quest
by gam3 (Curate) on Feb 02, 2006 at 20:15 UTC
    You left out Bob.

    -- gam3
    A picture is worth a thousand words, but takes 200K.
Re^2: poll ideas quest
by chacham (Prior) on Jul 09, 2014 at 11:12 UTC

    Virii and viruses are the only real options, but the poll could be generalized as: Should Latin words be pluralizes in English or in Latin. Or, perhaps, which Latin words should be pluralized in Latin (and which in English.)

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