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Originally Posted by NP_Complete
I forget. What class are you teaching? It sounds intriguing. Word origins are interesting. The only thing I've learned recently is that the plural of octopus is not octopii, but octopuses because octopus is Greek not Latin. I hope I got that correct.
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Greek and Latin roots of medical terminology. Octopuses is fine, though technically it’s octopodes. Octopi is used even if wrong, kind of like people say “ad nauseUm” instead of “ad nauseAm.”
ETA: two cats harnessed together would be octopussies.
