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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by ddulaney on Sunday November 21, 2021 @09:17PM (#29301994)
“Octopi is what's known as a hypercorrection” might also be overcorrection (meta-hypercorrection?) now that octopi is an understood plural with enough usage that it’s in some dictionaries.
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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by justbaker on Sunday November 21, 2021 @09:25PM (#29302041)
Like sulfur becoming an accepted spelling of sulphur from frequent misspelling? “Okay no one can get it right so just make it that too”.
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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by aetherson on Sunday November 21, 2021 @09:58PM (#29302236)
Yes. That's called language.
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