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Originally Posted by HarryT
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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Baen Books is an American publisher, and they specifically reference the Chicago Manual of Style, which itself references Websters when judging plurals. Websters says octopi, therefore it would have been changed (or at least questioned) by the editors if spelled otherwise.
And if Chicago specifies octopi, then its likely that academics would also use it, since many other American technical pubs use that style manual.