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minus-squareHupf@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·8 days ago octopuses Even if the dictionaries are starting to give in, I refuse to accept ‘octopi’ as a word mainly because–I’m not making this up–there’s a really satisfying climactic scene in the Orson Scott Card horror novel ‘Lost Boys’ which hinges on it being an incorrect pluralization.
minus-squarevonxylofon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 days agoWelcome, fellow octopodes enthusiast.
Even if the dictionaries are starting to give in, I refuse to accept ‘octopi’ as a word mainly because–I’m not making this up–there’s a really satisfying climactic scene in the Orson Scott Card horror novel ‘Lost Boys’ which hinges on it being an incorrect pluralization.
octopi = 25.1327412287183
Approximately.
Welcome, fellow octopodes enthusiast.
Octopodeez nuts