Another misconception blown away by a library book title.

[pendrops]

After seeing a children's nonfiction book titled, Octopuses, I decided to investigate.  With the whole fish/fishes fiasco, who knows these days.  So. . . .

Word of the Day: octopus (noun); any octopod of the genus Octopus, having a soft, oval body and eight sucker-bearing arms, living mostly at the bottom of the sea.  
plural: octopi OR octopuses

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Comments

[bikiniline]

How neat! Thanks for sharing, I love learning new random things about words.

For anyone who doesn't know (which I expect isn't Mica :), "fish" is correct when referring to one fish or several of the same kind of fish; "fishes" is appropriate in reference to several different kinds of fish.