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[-] sudoshakes@reddthat.com 24 points 4 months ago

Octopi if the base word was Latin. It’s Greek, so octopodes for plural. Technically.

Because English is a bastard if a language octopuses and octopi are fine too.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I nominate "octopodusai" to be the new English plural. (Where'd the "a" come from? To make it easier to confuse 'ai' with æ because fuck you, that's why, of course!)

[-] GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 2 points 4 months ago

If it was Latin, the singular would be octoped(e) and the plural would be octopedes

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

So "eight foot" and "eight feet"?

[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

Octopodes?

Ahk-top-o-deez nutz.

English can always make things worse.

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