Do octopi feel remorse for tentacle porn?

[Paleophyte]

"Octopus" isn't Greek, it's English bastardized from the Greek "oktopous". The worst that you can say about "octopi" is that it's misconceived, but then so is the whole English language.

So the correct plural of "octopus" is "octopi". Because it's the common usage and, more importantly, it pisses off the pedanticists.

If octopus is an English word, then the correct plural is ‘octopuses’

Or "octopus", "octopes", "octopeese", "octopices", etc. English hath no single grammatical rule for pluralization, so "octopi" is as acceptable as anything else.

To further this, ‘pedanticists’ isn’t a word. Neither is ‘pedanticism’ - the word is ‘pedantry’. People who practice it are called ‘pedants’.

Here endeth the lesson.

Yes, I no. I'm a ware that pedanticalists are vary predictable. Thankyou four beeing sew oblijing.

Enjoy your schooling.