on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:59:35PM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:15:30AM -0700, Tom wrote: > > > > My personal pet peeve is: > > http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=octopi > > oc?to?pus ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kt-ps) > > n. pl. oc?to?pus?es or oc?to?pi (-p) > > > > Octopus is greek. The correct plural is octopuses damn it! > > ... so shouldn't it be 'octopedes' IIRC? Haralambos?
hexadecipus Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Ceterum censeo, Caldera delenda est. SCO vs IBM Linux lawsuit info: http://sco.iwethey.org
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