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Originally Posted by HarryT
My objection to it in this particular case is not its common (mis)usage in everyday speech, but the fact that Mr. Spoor has a paleontologist use it in a conversation with a professional colleague. Regardless of its everyday "misuse", I'm absolutely certain that a professional in the field would not get it wrong.
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Octopi is used in "Fish catching methods of the world" by Otto Gabriel, et al.
(£123.49 from Amazon.
- they must be uber-expert authors at that price.)