Comment on Octopuses Invade the English Coast, ‘Eating Anything in Their Path’ | The highly intelligent cephalopods filled fishing nets and gobbled up crabs and lobsters in Devon and Cornwall this summer.

• Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Except it’s not Latin, it’s of Greek origin. So it’s octopodes.

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  • Ibuthyr@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Now I’m just plain embarrassed. I use Octopoden in German. No idea why I thought it should be octopi… I may have it mixed up with one of our customers (octopi brewing Co). Thanks for the correction!

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    • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      English speakers do all kinds of weird things with the plural of ‘octopus’

      I think I’ve seen everything except octopussies

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    • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Really any of those interpretations is just fine. Although I have my preference, I’m not gonna say anyone else is wrong.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s Latinized Greek, and in English as a further bastardized loan word multiple plural forms are correct, including octopi, octopodes, and octopuses!

    I prefer octopussesi, personally.

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    • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Octopussoir.

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• Lembot_0004@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  bastardize

  Removing exceptions is improving.

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  • FatLegTed@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How about ’Octopus army invades English coast’? instead.

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