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==Plural==
 
==Plural==
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While "octopi" is the popularly use plural form of "octopus" and is sometimes listed as such in [[Dictionary|dictionaries]] <ref name="m-w">http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/octopus</ref>, it is incorrect <ref>
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While "octopi" is the popularly used plural form of "octopus" and is sometimes listed as such in [[Dictionary|dictionaries]] <ref name="m-w">http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/octopus</ref>, it is incorrect <ref>
 
*Fowler, HW (1997) '''A Dictionary of Modern English Usage''' Wordsworth Editions. ISBN 1853263184
 
*Fowler, HW (1997) '''A Dictionary of Modern English Usage''' Wordsworth Editions. ISBN 1853263184
 
*http://www.colby.edu/biology/BI237/Lab/Tipstowritingscience.doc</ref>, with the strictly accepted plurals being "octopuses" and "octopodes".  Scholars working with cephalopods have settled on the usage of "octopuses" as plural for "octopus" in the narrow sense refering to species within the family Octopodidae<ref>
 
*http://www.colby.edu/biology/BI237/Lab/Tipstowritingscience.doc</ref>, with the strictly accepted plurals being "octopuses" and "octopodes".  Scholars working with cephalopods have settled on the usage of "octopuses" as plural for "octopus" in the narrow sense refering to species within the family Octopodidae<ref>
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