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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by monkeybutton on Sunday November 21, 2021 @09:56PM (#29302215)
This is fascinating and instead of replying I've been reading about this and looking up words like cacti. For what it's worth, both plural forms for Octopus are in my phone's autocomplete dictionary.
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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by sen on Sunday November 21, 2021 @10:04PM (#29302269)
The only real solution here is to make the official plural term be Octopises.
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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by Izkata on Sunday November 21, 2021 @10:49PM (#29302516)
Seems to be missing the third plural, perhaps Octopodises
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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by junon on Sunday November 21, 2021 @11:40PM (#29302816)
"Octopissies" doesn't exactly sound the best when said out loud...
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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by ComodoHacker on Monday November 22, 2021 @01:17AM (#29303399)
What about "octopussies"?
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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by froh on Monday November 22, 2021 @12:29AM (#29303101)
> phone's autocomplete dictionary.

Snicker ... The new Webster or Oxfords ...

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