I tend to insist on pluralizing it in the English mode, octopuses... but that's mainly because I don't think it's necessary to go to a previous language in order to get the proper declension of a word. If it did, then "octopi" would also make some sense since at one point in its history, it was a Latin word.
Plus, trying to derive the original formation again using English words, it would be easy to form "octopode" from "octopodes." Confusions better avoided.
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"Than seyde Merlion, "Whethir lyke ye bettir the swerde othir the scawberde?" "I lyke bettir the swerde," seyde Arthure. "Ye ar the more unwyse, for the scawberde ys worth ten of the swerde; for whyles ye have the scawberde uppon you, ye shall lose no blood, be ye never so sore wounded. Therefore kepe well the scawberde allweyes with you." --- Le Morte Darthur, Sir Thomas Malory
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"Than seyde Merlion, "Whethir lyke ye bettir the swerde othir the scawberde?" "I lyke bettir the swerde," seyde Arthure. "Ye ar the more unwyse, for the scawberde ys worth ten of the swerde; for whyles ye have the scawberde uppon you, ye shall lose no blood, be ye never so sore wounded. Therefore kepe well the scawberde allweyes with you." --- Le Morte Darthur, Sir Thomas Malory
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Re: One thing I have to mention about the official site by XSEED
Here's another word for you to play with, one that uses plurals in a way that you would think octopus should.
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