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#77958 08/15/02 02:27 PM
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(hi Jackie). [nothing nonsubstantial to add to an already post-insubstantial thread]


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...you could have one Jazzoctopus or two Jazzoctupi, right?

I thought we had decided that the plural of octopus was hexadecipus. 'Scuse me while I go look it up...


Edit: Yup. http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=73959

#77960 08/15/02 10:10 PM
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the plural of octopus was hexadecipus

Umm, that's the dual. The plural would be tetradodecormoripus


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tetradodecormoripus

Oh, come on now, Faldage...everybody knows a tetradodecormoripus was a cat-like bony fish with four tails that swam the Devonian seas using a motion similar to the modern cormorant (a bird)...go figure.



#77962 08/16/02 03:24 AM
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two architecti

ooo. . . I think I'll have to adopt that.


Uh, 'scuse me Jazzo, but...architectiой. The contract's in the mail.


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