Octopuses(??) Seen Walking From Predators [BAD GRAMMAR ALERT]

AP/Newsday ^ | 3/25/05 | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

[Wolfstar]

From lousii snitch calamariiiii.

Whoda thought that a thread about octopus would turn out to be the most hilarious one on FR since the John Kerry photo threads last year.

[embedded_rebel]

You said the magic word.

[SlowBoat407]

The other one that gets me is when people try to sound more intelligent by pronouncing the "-es" at the end of a pluralized word as "-eez", no matter what the word is.

In fact, the only time it's supposed to be pronounced that way is when the singular ends in "-ex", such as "index" becoming "indices".

[martin_fierro]

*RIMSHOT! *

[diamond6]

Octupus is good eats.

[Blzbba]

"Holy Hand Grenade! "


Arthur: "1....2......5!!!"

KnightL: "3, sir"

Arthur: "3!"

KABOOM!

[Fiddlstix]

ROTFLMAO!

[capydick]

Therefore, Hillary Clinton is two clams.

She is? I thought she likes (bearded) clams.

[Kevin OMalley]

Time to change your armour, sir Blzbba!

[ApplegateRanch]

startled by the algae with legs, and began singing, "What's it all about, Algae?".

You can tell their sex at a glance, too. The female octo pi wear an algae bra.

[Bon mots]

What do you call 8 octopi?

Insalata con sepia (Octopus salad.)

[VadeRetro]

Once it has left the scene, it's an octogon.

You had me going up until this point. Then I noticed your screenname.

Now I'm suspicious.

[Bon mots]

How do they know what the octopusesiusii are pretending to be?

Exactly.
I think they were pretending to be surgical gloves.

[FreedomCalls]

You are flat out wrong. No less a source than the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary gives this:

octopus

  • noun (pl. octopuses) a mollusc with eight sucker-bearing arms, a soft body, beak-like jaws, and no internal shell.

  — DERIVATIVES octopoid adjective.

  — USAGE The standard plural in English of octopus is octopuses. However, since the word comes from Greek, the Greek plural form octopodes is still occasionally used. The plural form octopi, formed according to rules for Latin plurals, is incorrect.

  — ORIGIN Greek, from okto ‘eight’ + pous ‘foot’.

[VadeRetro]

That's British English, which is rapidly becoming a backwater dialect of American.

[FreedomCalls]

That's British English, which is rapidly becoming a backwater dialect of American.

It doesn't change the etymology of the word, since that is what I was replying to -- the statement that it is derived from Latin not Greek -- and the OED has more resources devoted to the etymology of words than any other organization, British or American.

[Stoat]

Crosslinked   :-)

Octopus seen walking on two legs like a human (includes video)