Plural of Octopus
Feb. 9th, 2006 09:36 amGo and answer the questions here: http://robert-jones.livejournal.com/186405.html?nc=3
Has anyone else read Orson Scott Card's[1] Lost Boys? Step claims he looked up "octopus" and the dictionary said the plural "octopus" or "octopuses", and that "octopodes" was only used referring to more than one species of octopus.
Does that last bit make sense to anyone? I couldn't find anything like that; did he make it up?
[1] How do you abbreviate that? Why does Orson Card sound wrong?
Has anyone else read Orson Scott Card's[1] Lost Boys? Step claims he looked up "octopus" and the dictionary said the plural "octopus" or "octopuses", and that "octopodes" was only used referring to more than one species of octopus.
Does that last bit make sense to anyone? I couldn't find anything like that; did he make it up?
[1] How do you abbreviate that? Why does Orson Card sound wrong?