04-03-2008, 12:48 PM
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pixie of the wood
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 10,575
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at the risk of sounding pedantic, octopus is not latin, it’s greek, therefore there is no latin plural. the proper (if somewhat pretentious) plural is octopodes but octopi is totally acceptable as is octopuses. octopedes however, is just flat out wrong.
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