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Fun fact: octopus does not come from Latin, which would give the plural an -i ending. It comes from Greek, which means that if you want to be particularly corre
by jrrv 8mo ago
Fun fact: octopus does not come from Latin, which would give the plural an -i ending. It comes from Greek, which means that if you want to be particularly correct about your plurals, then the plural is octopodes.
- bdamm 8mo agoThat's fun. Octopii rolls off the tongue though, doesn't it? Since we have survived both the Greek and Roman cultures, and have absorbed aspects of both into languages now widely distributed, I'd like to propose that we seed the path of a true lingua franca and declare the plural of octopus to be octopii. It's no worse than inserting greek words (octopodes) into English language.
- psychoslave 8mo agoThey are all already in use https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octopus https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octopus
- 6510 8mo agooctopurs
- gnubison 7mo agoPronounced octópodes, /ɒkˈtɒpədiːz/, with the -es rhyming with Heracles etc.