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minus-squareASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down6·1 year agoOctopuses. It’s an English word, not Latin. If you wanted to be less wrong, but still try to look smart, you could use octopodes, since it’s of Greek root. But in any case, it’s an English word, and thus is Octopuses.
minus-squarejackalope@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoAll 3 are correct because language is determined by use https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/the-many-plurals-of-octopus-octopi-octopuses-octopodes Read some Wittgenstein nerd.
minus-squareShard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoGet out of here you descriptivist. Don’t you know we here folk on lemmy are prescriptivists by law? God help you if autocorrect messes with your intended statement. /s (if required)
Octopuses. It’s an English word, not Latin.
If you wanted to be less wrong, but still try to look smart, you could use octopodes, since it’s of Greek root. But in any case, it’s an English word, and thus is Octopuses.
All 3 are correct because language is determined by use https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/the-many-plurals-of-octopus-octopi-octopuses-octopodes
Read some Wittgenstein nerd.
Get out of here you descriptivist.
Don’t you know we here folk on lemmy are prescriptivists by law? God help you if autocorrect messes with your intended statement.
/s (if required)
prescriptivites (/s)
Do Moose and Meese next!
House and Hice.