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Octopuses is the common form. You will sometimes hear octopi.
- Octopuses is the common form.
- You will sometimes hear octopi.
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American Heritage Dictionary accepts both octopuses and octopi. The discrepancy, I believe, came about because the word originally came from the Greek, then through the Latin, and scholars at the time used the normal plural for the Latin form.
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