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Octopus Escapes Through Hole Size of Quarter
Posted 15 years ago by animalo in category: animals
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MehMan - 15 years ago [ Reply ]
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At the begining, the guy says octopi for the plural of octopus but this is only a commonly used unofficial name for more than one octopus. As silly as it sounds, the scientific way of refering to more than one octopus is octopuses

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HoraceSPatoot - 15 years ago [ Reply ]
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The reason is that octopus is not derived from the Latin, which has a plural ending in -i, but it is derived from Greek octo (eight) + pous (foot). If you really wanted to be pedantic about it, the plural of octopus should be octopodes. Same goes for that flat-footed animal, platypus.

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