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by deepspace 1421 days ago
I much prefer octopodes over octopuses (which sounds dirty, somehow). Agree that octopi is an abomination.
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My brain always want to pronounce that as “oct-AH-poh-deez” like some Greek hero from the Odyssey.
That's the correct pronunciation.
Achilles, Ulysses, Archimedes, and Octopuses.