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minus-squareLogicalFallacy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·edit-27 days agoI’m just upset they killed all this octopuses. I also just learned that the word isn’t octopussies.
minus-squareMBM@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·7 days agoNo. It doesn’t have the Latin ending -us, but actually ends with pus (fom the Greek word for foot). From the Greek origin, the plural would be octopodes. Octopuses is more usual.
minus-squaresomeguy3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoMerriam Webster answered this https://youtu.be/s166nC_hiZ0
I’m just upset they killed all this octopuses.
I also just learned that the word isn’t octopussies.
Isn’t it octopi?
No. It doesn’t have the Latin ending -us, but actually ends with pus (fom the Greek word for foot). From the Greek origin, the plural would be octopodes. Octopuses is more usual.
Merriam Webster answered this https://youtu.be/s166nC_hiZ0