FFS, I wish people would stop trying to be clever with their 'technically correct' octopus pluralization that follows no English usage and hangs on a second-hand philological argument that has no 'technical' bearing on English.
I remember back in 2004, I was walking down by the DC monuments. I came up on the reflecting pool and saw two mallards getting it on in the pond. For some reason this struck me as hilarious. Here they were, with the reflection of the most phallic monument I've ever seen in the water around them, flipping George W Bush and all the anti-sex conservatives the bird, and I got to watch it all.
JFYI duck penises are crazypants spiral hydraulic stabbers, male ducks are rapey, and female ducks have anti-spiral cockblocking vaginas. http://jezebel.com/5992668/everything-ab…
(Lindy West)
It's octopuses. Not octopus, not octopi, not octopdes. Octopuses. Nerdy explanation here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/video/oc…. The AP Stylebook agrees as well. Octopuses.
And you follow that rule just like sheeps.
I remember back in 2004, I was walking down by the DC monuments. I came up on the reflecting pool and saw two mallards getting it on in the pond. For some reason this struck me as hilarious. Here they were, with the reflection of the most phallic monument I've ever seen in the water around them, flipping George W Bush and all the anti-sex conservatives the bird, and I got to watch it all.
http://jezebel.com/5992668/everything-ab…
(Lindy West)
It's complicated: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octopus