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[โ€“] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Octopodes, pronounced oc-top-o-dees, not oc-to-po-des. Like Hercules.

Also, using the I ending to pluralize us endings comes out of an attempted prescriptive reform of English in the late 1800s to make it more like Latin. We still use es endings to pluralize us singulars most of the time, the places where we use I are ether direct usages of Latin words or remnants of that prescriptive push.