All the other kids clung to their parents like little eight legged octopodes**, but not mine, mine ran into the room and pretty much ignored me all morning.— It's my life...
Protip: It's octopodes, not octopi. on 03 / 26 / 2009, -1 / +1Actually, the order of accepted plurals for octopus is as follows: enneapus, decapus, hendecapus, dodecapus, and so on.— Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
In Cozumel one can not only see octopuses (octopi? octopodes?) and some small colored fish, there is a diversity of unique subaqueous fish like— xml's Blinklist.com
The term octopod (plural octopods or octopodes) is taken from the taxonomic order Octopoda but has no classical equivalent.— Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle

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