#Tsarren wrote:
#> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 07:20:05PM -0600, Howard Brazee wrote:
#>>
#>> How about the virus?
[...]
#Depends upon who's doing the classification. But let's move to a less
#controversial form, the bacteria.
As long as we're talking about "the virus" and "the polar bear", let's
be consistent and say "the bacterium". "Bacteria" is plural. :-)
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