*Pedant alert!* Everyone thinks it's octopi when really it's octopuses. Don't ask me about the declension in question -- but my G&R Studies prof was quite adament on this point.

I guess you're right, because octopus comes from the greek language..

from the cambridge dictionary:

octopus
noun [C] plural octopuses or octopi
a sea creature with a soft oval body and eight tentacles (= long arm-like parts)

from the oxford dictionary:

octopus

• noun (pl. octopuses) a mollusc with eight sucker-bearing arms, a soft body, beak-like jaws, and no internal shell.

— DERIVATIVES octopoid adjective.

— USAGE The standard plural in English of octopus is octopuses. However, since the word comes from Greek, the Greek plural form octopodes is still occasionally used. The plural form octopi, formed according to rules for Latin plurals, is incorrect.

— ORIGIN Greek, from okto ‘eight’ + pous ‘foot’.

I really want one, though. But I could never justify penning a creature like that. Now, if I could rescue one from a speeding bus or something, then perhaps I could take it home and nurse it back to health for the next fifty years. I mean if the poor fellow subsequently came down with a permanent case of the nerves.

There was a surrealist painter in Paris in the 30s who was famous for keeping a pet lobster. He'd walk his friend around Montmarte on a thin silver chain. Once when asked "...but why a lobster?" he replied, "lobsters never bark. And they know the secrets of the deep."

Octopodes are very smart.

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