Tue Feb 08, 2011, 05:23pm
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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Originally Posted by mbyron
Reminds me of what Safire once wrote about the plural of 'octopus', which confronts the same issue. He said that 'octopi' is wrong (uses a Latin ending), 'octopodes' is pedantic (uses the proper Greek ending), and so the best choice is to make a regular English plural with 'octopuses'.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming, despite the fact that I'm wondering how the forum's resident plumber is so knowledgeable about Greek...
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Need the two be mutually exclusive? Then again, all my psyche is divided into three parts. 
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