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 that would be relevant if we were speaking Latin, but we aren't :-P -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list