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If you want to get really pedantic, use Octopodes :)


> If you want to get really pedantic

Well that certainly got our attention. Please, continue.


https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-many-plura...

The full thing is worth a read, but when you steal a word from one language that it also stole from a third, the pluralization rules are pretty much anything goes.


Octopoda is the order, better not mix both terms


Is this a niche where I could use "octopodibus" ?




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