Octopodomorphs if you want to be inclusive.
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qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 year ago
Professor should know that it’s etymologically Greek, so octopi is generally considered to be wrong.
Octopuses, or octopodes if you’re feeling badass, would be preferable afaik.
Rookwood@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Umbrias@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Pus isn’t the Greek form so it’s neither here nor there. Octopus is an English word and as such can be pluralized in numerous ways. Octopodes is my favorite though.
IMongoose@lemmy.world 1 year ago
www.dictionary.com/e/octopuses-or-octopi/
Octopuses, octopodes, and octopi are fine.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 year ago
What about octopussies?
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 year ago
James Bond already did that one I think…
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 year ago
As always, it depends on who you ask:
web.archive.org/web/20190422115828/…/octopus
oceanconservancy.org/blog/2022/…/plural-octopus
brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/19/octopi/
IMongoose@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Right, when there is this much controversy over a plural there will never be a consensus, especially when it doesn’t actually matter. The truth is that as long as people understand what you mean it doesn’t matter what you use.
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Vernacular morphology is one thing, but in a scientific mode, this is lazy AF.