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Shark Versus Octopus

Category: Biology
Posted on: June 20, 2008 6:01 PM, by Dave Bacon

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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.

Posted by: Aaron | June 20, 2008 8:04 PM

unless you are talking about different types (sub-orders) of octopus which is then octopoda...

Posted by: Jon | June 24, 2008 2:17 PM