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octopi
Octopuses vs. octopi
dr. dolittle
| October 23, 2012
Image from: The Living World of Molluscs, http://Molluscs.at Thank you to a recent comment from a reader questioning whether the proper plural form of octopus is octopuses or octopi. Here is the "official" answer from the editor at Merriam Webster: