atw: Pedantically molluscoid

From: "Jonathan Moffett" <moff28@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 13:40:39 +1100

My copy of Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language 
Unabridged copyright 1971 (with the buff buckram covers) also cites the plural 
of octopus (page 1562) as "octopuses or octopi"

Jonathan

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