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minus-squaresudoshakes@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 day agoOctopi 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.
minus-squareGandalftheBlack@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoIf it was Latin, the singular would be octoped(e) and the plural would be octopedes
minus-squareMagicShel@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoOctopodes? Ahk-top-o-deez nutz. English can always make things worse.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoI 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!)
minus-squareryedaft@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoSo “eight foot” and “eight feet”?
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.
If it was Latin, the singular would be octoped(e) and the plural would be octopedes
Octopodes?
Ahk-top-o-deez nutz.
English can always make things worse.
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!)
So “eight foot” and “eight feet”?