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To: scrabblehack

My grammar stands corrected, but I warn you - this could be a full time job.

Spell-check thinks it’s “octopuses.”


33 posted on 05/24/2008 3:02:55 AM PDT by YCTHouston
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To: YCTHouston

Octopuses is acceptable. Octopi comes from the mistaken belief that it is a Latin word — it is Greek-derived, but not every Latin noun that ends in -us takes -i in the plural.


42 posted on 05/24/2008 5:44:39 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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