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minus-squaretatelinkfedilinkEnglish19•7 months agoAlso, octopi. They’re all “correct” due to the multiple original languages’ grammar.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•13 days agoi can do you one better: language doesn’t have rules, if it sounds good it’s valid, who cares
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•7 months agoI’ve always preferred ‘octopodes’. It’s just such a fun word.
minus-square@ZronlinkEnglish6•7 months agoAfter reading the children of time series, I choose to use octopodes simply due to the fact that they are beautifully narcissistic little bastards in those books. Man is that a good, if gut wrenching series.
minus-squaretatelinkfedilinkEnglish4•7 months agoThank you! I knew they were all correct, and I knew why, but I didn’t have an authoritative source to point folks to.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•7 months agoIt used to be on the Merriam Webster YouTube channel but I think that editor left and for some reason it was taken down.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•13 days agoat this point i just spite everyone and call them something like “octopodii” or “octopiuses”
Octopodes.
Octopussies
Also, octopi. They’re all “correct” due to the multiple original languages’ grammar.
i can do you one better: language doesn’t have rules, if it sounds good it’s valid, who cares
I’ve always preferred ‘octopodes’. It’s just such a fun word.
After reading the children of time series, I choose to use octopodes simply due to the fact that they are beautifully narcissistic little bastards in those books.
Man is that a good, if gut wrenching series.
I should memorize the video
Thank you! I knew they were all correct, and I knew why, but I didn’t have an authoritative source to point folks to.
It used to be on the Merriam Webster YouTube channel but I think that editor left and for some reason it was taken down.
Octopodes nuts?
at this point i just spite everyone and call them something like “octopodii” or “octopiuses”
Octopadeus?