One of my favorite things in life is using Latin or Greek plurals on words that it makes absolutely no sense to use them on, and do not follow the rules of any language naturally involved.
I had steak and potati for dinner last night. Just one steak, though, I cannot eat multiple steakices
Reminds me of a joke:
A Roman soldier walks into a bar and says, "I'll have a martinus"
Bartender says, "don't you mean a martini?"
The Roman says. "if I wanted more than one I would've asked for it!"
I also do this! My personal top 3 are:
Jesus - Jesi
Bus - Bi
Penis - Penorum
For decades now, my wife and I have used "Kleeni" as the plural of "Kleenex".
Kleenex is Kneenes according to the rules of Latin, actually
But the plural of index is indices in Latin, so shouldn't the plural of Kleenex under those rules be Kleenices?
Looks like you beat us to level 7
Its whatever your heart is telling you.
Any mistake I make is actually just my dialect
Don't bother correcting my English grammar, as I have no respect for this language <3
And if folks knew what you meant, it's fine
That is what 'descriptive' in level 4 means
2π: two pi
π: one pus
Octopoden!
There were manny of them! Manny much octopoden!
American English: "All of the above are valid."
"Even 'octopussies?'"
American English: "...sure."
"even 'octopussies'?"
american english:
Search engines: Sir, this is a work computer
Just researching adaptations of classic literature.
Aham, there's some precedent
It's technically octopods
This is true for the scientific sense that it's order Octopoda (e.g. the plural for members of Hexapoda is "hexapods" and likewise "decapods" for Decapoda), but then it's kind of like saying the plural for "lobster" is "nephropids". The names are close for Octopoda and octopus, but it's still taking the colloquial name and pluralizing it into its scientific name. It's not specifically "to bring it in line with cephalopod"; that's just how generic names of members of taxa ending in 'poda' work generally.
Strictly speaking, "octopods" is the plural of "octopod".
Once I learned that “octopodes” is pronounced oct-TOP-o-dees not OCT-uh-pohds it became my pluralization of choice.
Octopodes nuts
Octopodes nuts
2 octopus = 1 hexadecipus
4 Quadropus = 8 bipus
Now I'm afraid to but too curious not to ask where might I find the octogoose?
In hell, next to cerberus probably.
Student: "language is prescriptive not descriptive"
Teacher: "you fail 3rd grade spelling"
And I absolutely support keeping people back who believe English should be guided and evolved through "Likes".
Putting aside the technicalities (it is not language that is prescriptive or descriptive, but linguistics), that's a widespread position among perfectly literate people, including professional linguists. Nothing to do with the number of "likes".
Octopussies is actually the name for a harem of Maud Adams clones
my my my, what a cunning linguist!
Just like meese is the plural of moose
No cheeses for us meeces :(
Merriam Webster's response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s166nC_hiZ0
Next, we pronounce "apoptosis".
I thought it was octopuxen?
So... 2 cephalopods, 1 cephalopus ?
Level 10: all forms are valid as long as enough people use them. The currently most used forms are octopuses and octopi, both valid, but octopi is malformed, so octopuses is preferred. Octopussses and octopii and rare variants of those. Also correct, but rarely used.
Octopodes is also correct, but considered pedantic.
Level 11: Just use what you are used to.
It should just refer to the number of tentacles. So, for two of them, it would be sēdecimpus
Cephalopus
As a native greek speaker, I find anything other than "octopuses" to be silly. In greek we don't say (any more) octopodes, we say "chtapodia" (the "ch" is the canonical (ELOT) transliteration of the letter χ).
Call 'em whatever you like, they're all octobussies to me.
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