Octopodes.
Octopodeez nuts
Beat me to it
Please don’t beat your meat to octopodes
Hey, we’re not hurting anyone!!!
It is octopodes. It’s Greek and it follows the Greek pluralisation convention.
Words brought into English can use English pluralisations, so you’re not wrong if you say octopuses. I think Grammar Girl had a take on this maybe 7 or even 8 years ago by now. These days, I can’t see myself getting worked up about it for the sheer fun of being pedantic like I used to.
It’s not octopuses that octopodes corrects, it’s octopi. Octopi is a Latin pluralization, and since the word is Greek and us to i isn’t specifically American, I agree with you that octopuses is fine but not that octopi is fine.
Octopussy. Thank you very much.
Octopussies
I knew there was going to be someone as
childishfunny as me in here!
As long as they’re penetrating a lady I don’t care what they are called.
Octopi is a hypercorrectism which doesn’t make it wrong
A hypercorrection based on a misunderstanding of the Latin declension for the word, at that.
Neither are incorrect, that’s the point
I just wanted to namedrop the technical term. Both are fine
Octopussies
Octos
… podes
Octopice.
Several of Octopus
octopus - octopi
amogus - amogi
chungus - chungiWhy is octopi correct? Based on what?
Because people use it, and if you say it everybody will understand without any ambiguity.
Then the meme is formatted incorrectly. Or “correctly”, if we define correct as “incorrect, but, you get it, so…”
Octopuses is correct if you’re referring to many different species of octopus. Octopi would be correct if you’re referring to a cluster of one species of octopus.
Octopi would be correct if you’re referring to a cluster of one species of octopus.
Based on what?
Octopipuses?
When I document code I have this problem with indices vs indexes.
which can lead to crises of errata
Imagine speaking correct English
