* Deryk Barker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thus spake Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > 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 > > The "Greek" plural would be octopodes. > Actually, 'octopodous', depending on case (i.e. nominative, genitive,...), if I remember my classical Greek from nearly 40 years ago correctly.
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