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by Sharlin 905 days ago
As far as I know, it’s always valid, and perhaps even preferable, to use the regular -s plural with any Latin loanword, after all they’re English words now even if borrowed from another language. Using the original Latin plural forms in casual contexts feels a bit pretentious, especially when it’s not even the correct form, like "octopi".
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Or words like status, where the correct plural would be statūs, i.e. the same word but a long “u”.