Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > 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.
Your brain's grammar engine will give you the correct answer. It may not match your English teacher's answer, but the language we are talking about is not standard English but the dialect you have acquired in childhood. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
