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...is probably viruses[^]
This community announcement brought to you by: Procrastination Why do something incredibly important right now when you can find a hundred usless things to do instead!
Yeah, one of those days...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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virii [^]
"Virii is in fact an INCORRECT pluralization of "virus", however, some retard keeps resubmitting it as the plural form."
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Urbandictionary. A reliable source. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I agree with you on that.. 
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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Well that would be wrong even if you were being a classical dick about it, it would be 'viri'.
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And the plural of Elvis is Elvii. 
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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I didn't. I called Chris "Shirley"
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No, no no no no, NO.
Y'see, I SAID SHIRLEY when the meaning required was Surely - a la Airplane (aka Flying High) - so I WAS MAKING THE JOKE IN THE FIRST PLACE. (well, I say joke - it was funny when Leslie first used it)
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Just joking with you.  I could have the best joke writer in the business give me a joke and it would fall flat.
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Resuscitating my high school Latin:
Treating 'virus' as a Latin noun and assuming that the normal form is the nominative singular form (the form used when it is the subject of a sentence), the 'us' ending means that it has to be either first or fourth declension. If it is first declension, the nominative plural form would be viri; if fourth declension, it would be 'virus' (spelt the same but pronounced differently ('viroose')). 'Vira' would be the plural form of a first declension neuter noun whose singular form was 'virum'.
In fact, the origin of the word virus is (according to my ancient version of the Oxford English Dictionary) a (first declension) Latin adjective, so things get a bit more complicated, since a singular noun derived from it (fairly common Latin practice) might well be 'virum' ('poisonous thing'), with 'vira' as a plural, but since the standard singular form is the masculine 'virus', we are back to 'viri' as a plural.
Having said all this, we are speaking and writing English (or, in some cases, American!), and it is common and perfectly proper to form plurals of singular words taken over from other languages by adding standard English plural endings, so my usage preference is actually 'viruses'.
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That's to much reading. 
No matter where you go, there you are...~?~
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CHOMP!!!
You got bitten by the last-character-in-link-gets-chopped-off bug!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Oh hand me the Kleenices.
"Virii" is bad enough, but what really peeves me is the use of "penii". 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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What the hell sort of parties do you go to ?
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That kind. 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Let's just hope you never find yourself needing to know anything about more than one octopus.
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Fun fact of the Day: A group of octopus, or octopodes, is called a consortium.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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So... Would a number of groups of octopi be a consortia?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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The whole thing is silly, really, isn't it?
I mean, the singular of "us" is "i" not the other way around
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Good point there.
But, is not always like that. For example, the word 'alumnus' is singular, and 'alumni' is its plural form.
I don't know if this one has a connection, but 'Us' and 'I' are pronoun. 
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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