On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:55:02AM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > > on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:59:35PM +0100, Pigeon (jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk) wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:15:30AM -0700, Tom wrote: > > > >... > > > > > > > > Octopus is greek. The correct plural is octopuses damn it! > > > > > > ... so shouldn't it be 'octopedes' IIRC? Haralambos? > > > > hexadecipus > > Think outside the box (well, you did, but think further outside the > box): that's only _two_ octopu...thingies. Plural goes beyond two. > > :-) Yeah, but as well as 'singular' and 'plural', Greek has the 'dual', where there are two things... :-) :-) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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