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To: bk1000

With grammar issues.
I thought it wasn’t “Octopuses”
I thought it was “Octopi”


22 posted on 12/29/2021 6:26:46 AM PST by RandallFlagg ("Okay. As long as the paperwork is clean, you boys can do what you like out there." -Fifi)
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To: RandallFlagg

>>I thought it was “Octopi”

Technically, since ‘octopus’ is of greek origin, the correct plural is octopodes. But both barbarisms ‘octopuses’ and ‘octopi’ are common.


50 posted on 12/29/2021 7:15:06 AM PST by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: RandallFlagg

“With grammar issues.
I thought it wasn’t “Octopuses”
I thought it was “Octopi””

Octopodes? The word has Greek origins...


62 posted on 12/29/2021 8:07:41 AM PST by Born to Conserve
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