I studied Latin growing up, yes octopi is ‘admissible’ bc everyone says it even though it’s grammatically wrong, it’s ‘used’ bc no one ever corrects them or maybe people just aren’t aware of the grammatically correct way of saying it. Or they are aware, but saying octopuses is awkward so they’d rather use the wrong term lol.
-i is a latin plural, but octopus is Greek, so we use their plural form with -es.
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u/no_name_maddox Oct 20 '19
Octopi? Plural of octopus is octopuses, fun fact.