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The Quantum Pontiff
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He who pluralizes octopus as octopi reveals his ignorance of three languages — Latin, because octopus does not derive from Latin, Greek, because the Greek plural of oktopous is oktopodes, and English, because the English plural is octopuses.
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unless you are talking about different types (sub-orders) of octopus which is then octopoda…
June 20, 2008
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