atw: Re: Pedantically molluscoid

Reminds me of an old joke from "Rinse the blood of my toga".

Flavius Maximus walks into a bar in Ancient Roman and asks for a
Martinis.
The Barman says "Don't you mean a Martini?"
Flavius Maximus says "If I want two, I'll ask for them!
Boom boom.
Have a good weekend

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Subject: atw: Pedantically molluscoid

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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