May 02, 2022
There are three plural forms of octopus in English: octopi, octopuses, and octopodes (“ock-TAH-poh-deez”).
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Why Do We Say “A Pair of Pants”?
Ask anyone who is learning English as a second language what they think the most-maddening oddity of the language is and you are bound to get several different answers (there are, after all, dozens of exceptions to the “rules” of English). But here’s one that repeatedly comes up, even among native
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