Re: [Waaaaaay OT] Grammer

[Cam Ellison <cam@ellisonet.ca>]

* Deryk Barker (dbarker@turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca) wrote:
> Thus spake Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com):
> 
> > 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:
> > > > 
> > > > My personal pet peeve is:
> > > > http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=octopi
> > > > oc?to?pus    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (kt-ps)
> > > > n. pl. oc?to?pus?es or oc?to?pi (-p)
> > > > 
> > > > Octopus is greek.  The correct plural is octopuses damn it!
> > > 
> > > ... so shouldn't it be 'octopedes' IIRC? Haralambos?
> > 
> > hexadecipus
> 
> The "Greek" plural would be octopodes.
> 
Actually, 'octopodous', depending on case (i.e. nominative,
genitive,...), if I remember my classical Greek from nearly 40 years
ago correctly.

Cheers

Cam


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