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Pretty sure GP was joking. But anyway, my favorite word to throw out there in fun little pedantic conversations like this = octopus, which ends up ! actually be

Pretty sure GP was joking. But anyway, my favorite word to throw out there in fun little pedantic conversations like this = octopus, which ends up ! actually being octopi like most people think, but rather octopodes due to it being from Greek & ! Latin.

creshal 10y ago
Grammar is always fun, even more so when you start mixing several languages.
- PeCaN 10y ago
  Especially in the same word! coughtelevisioncough
  - cm3 10y ago
    hexadecimal, was originally and correctly sexadecimal, but when it got wider use somehow was turned into hexadecimal instead of the also correct hexagecimal.
mjevans 10y ago
I support languages fully 'thieving' and owning words that they copy (not borrow) from other languages. It might be octopodes in those other languages, but octopi is the pattern most expect from the current structure and therefore it is more correct; scholars of exceptions be forgiven for their pedantic ways.