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!)
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 12 hours ago
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Octopodes?
Ahk-top-o-deez nutz.
English can always make things worse.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
So “eight foot” and “eight feet”?
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 8 hours ago
If it was Latin, the singular would be octoped(e) and the plural would be octopedes