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On 2015-02-02 02:04, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>> And there are underspecified rules too. What is the plural of
>> octopus? No fair looking it up in the dictionary.
>
> Standard and well-known piece of trivia, and there are several
> options. "Octopodes" is one of the most rigorously formal, but
> "octopuses" is perfectly acceptable. "Octopi" is technically
> incorrect, as the -us ending does not derive from the Latin.
>
And the plural of "virus" is "viruses", not "viri" (that's the plural of
"vir") or "virii" (that would be the plural of "virius", if it existed).