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Is it octopuses or octopi?

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Both octopuses and octopi are listed as correct pluralizations for octopus. The reason that the word causes confusion is that it is not straight from Latin but was a Greek word that was translated into Latin, then translated into English. Pluralizing gets confusing with all of the translations.

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