[mike10921]

If someone at a party complained to me that octopuses is wrong and it should be octopi, I would most likely be moving on to the next table..

[Moissanite]

And you'd be right to do so - life is too short for spending time with people who are wrong: https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2022/02/01/plural-octopus/

[space_ghost]

And I would happily jump in your vacant seat and enjoy hours of pedantic discussions on the vagaries of silly English words.

[dmichulke]

Pro tip: invite him for for pizzae

[flyingfences]

Dialectically, "pizza" is an uncountable and "pie(s)" is the unit.

[harshbutfair]

In Australia we would never refer to pizzas as pies. Is this a US-only thing or does it happen elsewhere?

[OJFord]

It's American to my British ear. I think they sometimes distinguish 'pizza pie' as being the deeper-pan Chicagoan style, which to be fair is a lot more like what I would call a pie than what I would call a pizza. (But also not really either.)

[thaumasiotes]

"Pies" is most certainly not American. I have heard that it is supposedly specific to New York, but if you watch Friends (set in New York), you'll see frequent references to the Joey Special, "two pizzas".

It's always possible that there are zero people who think of "pies" as an appropriate way to refer to pizzas, but the myth persists that weird foreign people do it. People will believe anything about weird foreigners. Or there might be weird foreign people doing it right now. It's hard to know.