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Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

>Dr. Bishop uses 'octopi' as a plural for octopus. Octopi is a plural 
>using Latin pluralization. Octopus is Greek in origin, the plural being 
>octopodes. English has its own pluralization rules, therefore, octopuses 
>is the correct form in the English language.

I had no idea.