
Octopuses
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How to Say Octopodes in English
There are four common ways people say it and they're all at least a little bit valid. Octopodes is one I have not heard I've heard octopodes but octopodes is that sounds like a Greek hero who like has eight arms and punches Zeus with all of them. It's also where we get the word millipedes right because that's a thousand feet. The reason there are so many ways English speakers say this plural is a weird mechanism with how the ancient Greek language also got adapted into Latin and then how both of those got adapted into English.
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