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::It basically means making the word wrong by trying to make it right.-[[User:Vulpes|Vulpes]] 19:53, 27 November 2010 (EST) | ::It basically means making the word wrong by trying to make it right.-[[User:Vulpes|Vulpes]] 19:53, 27 November 2010 (EST) | ||
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+ | :::Ah, I see. Well, if the dictionary lists it, it's not exactly wrong, right? (+1 for wrong, right XD, total score 64,234) I'll host a poll on the forums. [[User:Dragonfree97|<span style="color:green">Dragonfree</span>]] 19:54, 27 November 2010 (EST) |
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Plural
To quote Wikipedia: The plural form octopi is often defined as a hypercorrection. The Oxford English Dictionary (2008 Draft Revision)lists octopuses, octopi and octopodes (in that order); it labels octopodes "rare", although the correct Greek plural form, and notes that octopi derives from the "apprehension" that octōpūs is a second declension Latin noun, though it is not. It is a Latinization of Greek third-declension masculine oktṓpous (ὀκτώπους, 'eight-foot'), plural oktṓpodes (ὀκτώποδες). -Vulpes 19:50, 27 November 2010 (EST)
- Define 'hypercorrection'. Dragonfree 19:51, 27 November 2010 (EST)
- It basically means making the word wrong by trying to make it right.-Vulpes 19:53, 27 November 2010 (EST)
- Ah, I see. Well, if the dictionary lists it, it's not exactly wrong, right? (+1 for wrong, right XD, total score 64,234) I'll host a poll on the forums. Dragonfree 19:54, 27 November 2010 (EST)