Octopodomorphs if you want to be inclusive.
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qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 months 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 7 months ago
Umbrias@beehaw.org 7 months 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 7 months ago
www.dictionary.com/e/octopuses-or-octopi/
Octopuses, octopodes, and octopi are fine.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 7 months ago
What about octopussies?
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 months ago
James Bond already did that one I think…
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months ago
Vernacular morphology is one thing, but in a scientific mode, this is lazy AF.