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[–] sudoshakes@reddthat.com 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Octopi if the base word was Latin. It’s Greek, so octopodes for plural. Technically.

Because English is a bastard if a language octopuses and octopi are fine too.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I nominate "octopodusai" to be the new English plural. (Where'd the "a" come from? To make it easier to confuse 'ai' with æ because fuck you, that's why, of course!)

[–] GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

If it was Latin, the singular would be octoped(e) and the plural would be octopedes

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

So "eight foot" and "eight feet"?

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Octopodes?

Ahk-top-o-deez nutz.

English can always make things worse.