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NorthWestWind ,
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Octos

drbluefall ,

Veemo!

NorthWestWind ,
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Woomy!

Naz ,

… podes

tigeruppercut ,

Marco!

kindenough ,

Roger Moore would disagree.

jordanlund ,
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Octopodes.

theunknownmuncher ,

Beat me to it

Meron35 ,

Please don’t beat your meat to octopodes

theunknownmuncher ,

Hey, we’re not hurting anyone!!!

bhamlin ,

Octopodeez nuts

Jolteon ,

Hexadecipus

ImplyingImplications ,

When a Roman family has their 16th child.

matrixrunner ,
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No. There Is Another.

youtu.be/s166nC_hiZ0

Zagorath ,
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If you say ok-top-o-dees, you’d better be prepared to deliver this spiel at a moment’s notice

HA! That video was really good. Extremely quick and to the point, great linguistics content, and funny to boot!

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

As long as they’re penetrating a lady I don’t care what they are called.

ReplicantBatty ,

Ah, i see you are a man of culture as well.

maniel ,

Octopussies

Drusas ,

Octopus, octopuses, and octopodes are correct. Octopi incorrect.

Xavienth ,

Octopi is also correct. If anything, more correct than octopodes by virtue of popularity. Mismatching the language to the suffix does not a fake word make!

BuboScandiacus ,

Octopussies

Im_old ,

I knew there was going to be someone as childish funny as me in here!

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Octopice.

Nachorella ,

I am the guy in the middle, except I’m telling people it’s octopuses.

Mostly_Gristle ,

You do have the benefit of being right though.

The word octopus is a classical Greek word that comes to English via Latin. The Greek plural is octopodes, the Latin plural is octopi. But we don’t speak Latin or classical Greek. We speak English. Because octopus is the English word for octopus it follows the English rules for pluralization, which is to add “s” or “es” to the end of the word. Cases can be made why octopi and octopodes could be technically correct, but for English speakers octopuses is the most correct.

Nachorella ,

Yeah, I did something for work where I had to study up about it and instead of being angry it’s just kind of a fun fact. I don’t actually mind what people say, I think everyone understands what you mean regardless.

ShortFuse ,

When I document code I have this problem with indices vs indexes.

funkless_eck ,

which can lead to crises of errata

lugal ,

Octopi is a hypercorrectism which doesn’t make it wrong

Gemini24601 OP ,
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Neither are incorrect, that’s the point

lugal ,

I just wanted to namedrop the technical term. Both are fine

msgraves ,

Imagine speaking correct English

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