"corpii" as plural of "corpus"

[Victor Steinbok]

Just for general purposes, what would be the folk-derived plural of
"corps"? For that matter, what /is/ the plural of corps?

     VS-)

On 3/9/2010 10:55 PM, Geoff Nathan wrote:
> The most frequent one of these I've seen is 'virii', used by IT folks. It even has its own Wikipedia page in Wiktionary, with a notation that
>
> though common, is generally considered to be incorrect, and based on a misunderstanding of Latin (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/virii)
>
> but, as I've said, I've seen it frequently.  But then my other hat is as an IT Security Policy wonk.
>
> Geoff
> ----- "James Harbeck"<jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA>  wrote:
>
>
>> From: "James Harbeck"<jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA>
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 4:44:16 PM GMT -10:00 Hawaii
>> Subject: Re: "corpii" as plural of "corpus"
>>
>>
>> Yet another manifestation of the (it seems to me) rather common
>> belief that the plural of any -us is an -ii (not an -i, as it would
>> often be; it seems that the more marked -ii, as in radii, has stuck
>> in many people's heads as more right). I've run across the -ii quite
>> a few times, though I've never noted corpii before (korpi, yes, which
>> is Finnish for "forest", but not corpii).
>>
>> James Harbeck.

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