On 2015-02-02 02:04, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
And there are underspecified rules too. What is the plural of
octopus? No fair looking it up in the dictionary.
Standard and well-known piece of trivia, and there are several
options. "Octopodes" is one of the most rigorously formal, but
"octopuses" is perfectly acceptable. "Octopi" is technically
incorrect, as the -us ending does not derive from the Latin.
And the plural of "virus" is "viruses", not "viri" (that's the plural of
"vir") or "virii" (that would be the plural of "virius", if it existed).
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