plurals / pluralize

Pluralize or singularize any word based on a count
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"viruses" instead of "viri" #206

Open verhovsky opened 1 month ago

verhovsky commented 1 month ago

"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".