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TehDruid wrote:Octopussy - A cat head with 8 tentacles and nothing else.

damiac wrote:[grammar nazi]
It's octopi you jerks
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Wikipedia wrote:Etymology and pluralization
The term "octopus" is derived,[44][45] through scientific Latin, from ancient Greek ὀκτώπους ("eight-footed") < ὀκτώ ("eight") and πούς ("foot").[46] (Ancient Greek also had the form ὀκτάπους,[47] which would give "octapus" in English; cf. Modern Greek χταπόδι < οκταπόδι < οκταπόδιον < ὀκτάπους.)

The usual plural in English is "octopuses" (pronounced /ˈɒktəpʊsɪz/), but the Greek plural form "octopodes" (pronounced /ɒkˈtɒpədiːz/) is sometimes used, though less frequently than in the past.[48] The form "octopi", as if the word were a Latin second-declension noun, is generally considered incorrect,[44][48][49][50][51][52] but is in fact used, so that it is registered by the descriptivist Merriam-Webster 11th Collegiate Dictionary, which lists "octopuses" and "octopi", in that order, and Webster's New World College Dictionary, which lists plurals in the order: "octopuses", "octopi", and "octopodes". The Oxford English Dictionary (2008 Draft Revision)[53] also lists "octopuses", "octopi", and "octopodes", in that order, labelling "octopodes" as rare and noting that "octopi" derives from the misapprehension that octōpus is a second-declension Latin noun and stating that, if the word were native to Latin, it would be third declension octōpēs (plural: octōpedes) after the pattern of pēs ("foot", plural pedēs).[54] The New Oxford American Dictionary (3rd Edition 2010) lists only "octopuses" as being the acceptable pluralization, with a usage note indicating "octopodes" as being "still occasionally used", and "octopi" as being "incorrect".[55]

Related to the word "octopus" are the term "Octopoda" (the taxonomic order of cephalopod molluscs that comprises the octopuses) and the adjective "octopoid".[48]

Confidence Interval wrote:I watch quite a few kids' shows but have not yet watched that one.

NessOnett wrote:Regardless of how you label the Octopus in the plural sense(It's Octopodes, deal with it), at least have some consistency OP. You can't have one form in the title, and a different form in the body. That's just objectively incorrect from a proper grammar setting.