One of my professors at MIT claimed that "octopus" is fifth-declension, so its plural is "octopūs"*, pronounced "octopoose".
*Did you know that in X Windows under Linux, you can type a Unicode character by holding down CTRL-SHIFT and typing the character's hexadecimal code? My life has been transformed by this discovery.
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Date: 2006-01-06 04:51 pm (UTC)*Did you know that in X Windows under Linux, you can type a Unicode character by holding down CTRL-SHIFT and typing the character's hexadecimal code? My life has been transformed by this discovery.