#do I tag my hero academia or straight people? Nah it was a brief mention

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Mw are you a fan of BNHA and do you hate straight people. Just curious

I like My Hero academia, I think straight people are neat, and I LOVE octopodes

Did you know there are three different plural forms for octopus? Octopi, octopuses, octopodes, all coined in that order.

Early 17th century, octopi was coined as they thought that hey! A Latin word deserves a Latin ending!

Later 17th century, they decided that y’know, it’s an English word now, let’s give it an ENGLISH ending.

Early to Mid 18th century I think? They discovered on a widespread level that uh. Guys octopus is a Greek word. It roughly translates to “ head foot”, or “eight foot”? I’ve seen both translations in several places so I don’t quite remember, but octopodes is the most grammatically correct- yet the least known about plural form compared to octopuses and octopi.

Although due to how languages change and develop and adopt different words and just how long these have all been around, all three form are technically all fine to use grammar wise, of course I’m not sure what your research paper would want you to use, but I’m personally partial to “octopodes” myself.

Anyone can feel free to correct me on any of this, I scoured SO many websites abd youtube videos just to get a concrete answer so let me know if I got any information wrong :333