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[scooby]

Is it Sulfur or Sulphur?

 

[EternalOptimist]

I hate the way the say Aluminum

instead of Aluminium


grrr

 

[HairyArsedBloke]

The way the septics say "Caribbean" winds me up.

 

[TheBigYinJames]

The way the septics say "Caribbean" winds me up.

You should take a look at yourself in the meer sometime.

 

[DiscoStu]

Don't get me started on GW and new-ke-lar.

 

[HairyArsedBloke]

You should take a look at yourself in the meer sometime.

Meer: Meer is a small village in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is located in the municipality of Twenterand, about 2 km west of the town of Den Ham.

 

[TimberWolf]

You should take a look at yourself in the meer sometime.

Is it octopi or octopuses?

 

[expat]

Is it octopi or octopuses?

Octopodes.



No, really it's Octopuses.
1 is an Octopus, and
(a) it's not Latin 2nd declension so Octopi is false
(b) an octopus is not a pus, so although the (Ancient Greek) plural of pus is podes, the plural of octopus is not octopodes. In the same way as the plural of walkman is not walkmen, and the plural of Dobermann is not Doberleute or even Dobermänner.

 

[NotAllThere]

Both are valid, but, logically, it should be octopodes.

 

[HairyArsedBloke]

.... and the plural of Dobermann is not Doberleute or even Dobermänner.

Sorry, that really does crack me up.