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I much prefer octopodes over octopuses (which sounds dirty, somehow). Agree that octopi is an abomination.


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.




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