I'm not sure if there is a deeper meaning in your comment I'm missing, but octopi, whilst being a word that people use, is strictly speaking wrong (in a prescri

I'm not sure if there is a deeper meaning in your comment I'm missing, but octopi, whilst being a word that people use, is strictly speaking wrong (in a prescriptive sense). Octopus is a 3rd declension noun in Latin coming from Greek. If one believes nouns should be pluralised according to their origin - which someone using the second declension latin -i plural would likely be - then it follows that one should say octopodes. [0] Of course this can be solved in a rational way by using the English plurals as they used in the article to both avoid unusual sounding words and technical incorrectness. [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octopus https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octopus