One of my favorite things in life is using Latin or Greek plurals on words that it makes absolutely no sense to use them on, and do not follow the rules of any language naturally involved.
I had steak and potati for dinner last night. Just one steak, though, I cannot eat multiple steakices
Reminds me of a joke:
A Roman soldier walks into a bar and says, "I'll have a martinus"
Bartender says, "don't you mean a martini?"
The Roman says. "if I wanted more than one I would've asked for it!"
I also do this! My personal top 3 are:
Jesus - Jesi
Bus - Bi
Penis - Penorum
Penis - Penorum
WROOOOONG! Now write the full declension table on that wall. And make sure to draw some pictures with it, so you never forget the word! :-p
People called Romanes, they go, the house?!
It's the genitive! Genitive! Which makes the plural.. um! Penum! Penum! Romanorum penum amplitudines non magni sunt!
c===3, c===3, c===3.
Poetry was made today.
For decades now, my wife and I have used "Kleeni" as the plural of "Kleenex".
Kleenex is Kneenes according to the rules of Latin, actually
But the plural of index is indices in Latin, so shouldn't the plural of Kleenex under those rules be Kleenices?
It's hard to tell because the deviating form in Latin is actually the nominative singular, which is why vocab lists include the genitive singular as well. All other forms have the same stem aside from Nom. Sg. A few examples are:
senex - senēs (elder)
rēx - rēgēs (king)
index - indīcēs (index)
So really anything could work as long as it ends on -ēs in plural and starts with kleen-.
Its whatever your heart is telling you.
Any mistake I make is actually just my dialect
Don't bother correcting my English grammar, as I have no respect for this language <3
And if folks knew what you meant, it's fine
2π: two pi
π: one pus
American English: "All of the above are valid."
"Even 'octopussies?'"
American English: "...sure."
"even 'octopussies'?"
american english:
Octopoden!
There were manny of them! Manny much octopoden!
It's technically octopods
This is true for the scientific sense that it's order Octopoda (e.g. the plural for members of Hexapoda is "hexapods" and likewise "decapods" for Decapoda), but then it's kind of like saying the plural for "lobster" is "nephropids". The names are close for Octopoda and octopus, but it's still taking the colloquial name and pluralizing it into its scientific name. It's not specifically "to bring it in line with cephalopod"; that's just how generic names of members of taxa ending in 'poda' work generally.
Strictly speaking, "octopods" is the plural of "octopod".
Once I learned that “octopodes” is pronounced oct-TOP-o-dees not OCT-uh-pohds it became my pluralization of choice.
Octopodes nuts
I hadn't even thought about that, it makes total since being derived from Greek. I am now fully on team octopodes.
Octopodes nuts
2 octopus = 1 hexadecipus
4 Quadropus = 8 bipus
Now I'm afraid to but too curious not to ask where might I find the octogoose?
In hell, next to cerberus probably.
Just like meese is the plural of moose
No cheeses for us meeces :(
Or: Mouse - mice; house - hice
Plurals in English are always a bit of a roll of the dice...
my my my, what a cunning linguist!
I thought it was octopuxen?
Next, we pronounce "apoptosis".
Merriam Webster's response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s166nC_hiZ0
Level 10: all forms are valid as long as enough people use them. The currently most used forms are octopuses and octopi, both valid, but octopi is malformed, so octopuses is preferred. Octopussses and octopii and rare variants of those. Also correct, but rarely used.
Octopodes is also correct, but considered pedantic.
Level 11: Just use what you are used to.
Call 'em whatever you like, they're all octobussies to me.
Cephalopus
I do like octopods. I will use that from now on and you can't stop me.
As a native greek speaker, I find anything other than "octopuses" to be silly. In greek we don't say (any more) octopodes, we say "chtapodia" (the "ch" is the canonical (ELOT) transliteration of the letter χ).
Confused Squidward noises.
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