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Old 06-04-2010, 12:34 PM   #57
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Originally Posted by Laine View Post
In high school in England in the 60s I was taught that all 3 versions of the plural of octopus were correct. So I think we could cut Rik Spoor some slack. I generally tended to believe what my teachers told me. And my school was a selective grammar school.
As I said earlier in this thread, Laine, both the Oxford and Chambers dictionaries disapprove of "octopi" - in fact Chambers specifically says that it's wrong.
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