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Octopus eats shark
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7004909622962894202#
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Never expected that one. Goes to show you... Super tough guys better watch out for the silent, meek types or they might get eaten too.
Hey, thanks for the "Greenie". In spite of the tragic mispelling of the playwright's name, too!
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I think I like octopuses. I'm sticking with that.
Mike
I think I like octopuses. I'm sticking with that.
Mike
The plural form of octopus is octopuses (or occasionally octopodes). Although it is often supposed that octopi is the 'correct' plural of octopus, and it has been in use for longer than the usual Anglicized plural octopuses, it in fact originates as an error. Octopus is not a simple Latin word of the second declension, but a Latinized form of the Greek word oktopous, and its 'correct' plural would logically be octopodes.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_plural_of_octopus
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The plural octopi is hypercorrect, coming from the mistaken notion that the -us in octopus is a Latin second declension ending. The word is actually treated as a third declension noun in Latin. The plural octopodes follows the Ancient Greek plural, ὀκτώποδες (oktōpodes).
Sources differ on which plurals are acceptable: Fowler’s Modern English Usage asserts that “the only acceptable plural in English is octopuses”, while Merriam-Webster and other dictionaries accept octopi as a plural form. The Oxford English Dictionary lists octopuses, octopi, and octopodes (the order reflecting decreasing frequency of use), stating that the last form is rare.
The term octopod (either plural octopods and octopodes can be found) is taken from the taxonomic order Octopoda but has no classical equivalent, and is not necessarily synonymous (it can encompass any member of that order). The collective form octopus is usually reserved for animals consumed for food.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octopus
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_plural_of_octopus
Usage notes
The plural octopi is hypercorrect, coming from the mistaken notion that the -us in octopus is a Latin second declension ending. The word is actually treated as a third declension noun in Latin. The plural octopodes follows the Ancient Greek plural, ὀκτώποδες (oktōpodes).
Sources differ on which plurals are acceptable: Fowler’s Modern English Usage asserts that “the only acceptable plural in English is octopuses”, while Merriam-Webster and other dictionaries accept octopi as a plural form. The Oxford English Dictionary lists octopuses, octopi, and octopodes (the order reflecting decreasing frequency of use), stating that the last form is rare.
The term octopod (either plural octopods and octopodes can be found) is taken from the taxonomic order Octopoda but has no classical equivalent, and is not necessarily synonymous (it can encompass any member of that order). The collective form octopus is usually reserved for animals consumed for food.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octopus
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Octopodes. As to rhyme with "on top of these"? Kind of like "Uripedes and Umenedes"?
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