Posted on 05/23/2008 7:42:18 PM PDT by swampdweller
That’s just wrong.
They should schedule a special promotion at the games called- OctopuFest
(With plenty of beer, of course! ;)
Dictionaries have all sorts of things these days by illiterate editors and enablers of illiteracy — such as kudo (occasionally the editor will acknowledge that kudos is already singular, but they explain that since so many don’t realize that, they’re going along with the flow.)
Octopi is just an affectation used by people wanting to sound literate. I understand the Greeks used polypous, polypodes.
There is an omega after that tau...
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000813.html
I’ve checked a couple of different sources and octopi seems to be acceptable. Far be it from me to argue which sources are correct and which are not.
octopi, my eye!
OH MY WORD! (I should be grateful I couldn’t find the “translate” button?!)
Go Spurs!!
Thanks for looking that up. A fascinating re-education.
Why?? Seriously, we need to ditch pointless rules like this and live a little here. It’s not like it’s destructive, you’re just throwing a dead cephalopod onto a sheet of ice for crying out loud! I think I need to wing one at Bettman....
Detroit has won 8 Stanley Cups. Octopi have 8 legs...supposed to symbolize the number of championships they’ve won. If they win this series, they’re gonna have to find some mutant 9-legged octopi...lol
Liberated - thanks!
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