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Re:Just how smart is an octopus? by jacobush on Monday January 09, 2017 @03:01PM (#13359319)
I don't know, could it also be because what became England was pretty romanised before the Saxon influence began in earnest?
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Re:Just how smart is an octopus? by pacaro on Monday January 09, 2017 @08:35PM (#13361761)
Well the word Octopus was invented from the whole cloth by Linnaeus, presumably inspired by applying the prefix for eight, to the Ancient Greek work for an octopus which was "polypous"
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