The Forum > Tomfoolery > I humbly present you with an octopi
"An" octopi? Octopi is a plural. But it isn't. Octopi is hypercorrection--it treats "octopus" as if it were a second-declension Latin noun. The real plural of "octopus" is much more pretentious than that. Anyone can say octopi. No, the real plural of octopus is from Greek, and it is "octopodes". |
the Dark Hunter said: Blech. I always hated third declension nouns. 3rd declension nouns were the fun ones. |
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