It’s “octopuses,” not “octopi.” John Oliver had a lot to say about octopuses in a new “Last Week Tonight” web-exclusive video.
RELATED: John Oliver Shares Story Of Racism Involving Chinese Survivors Of The Titanic The TV host explained the somewhat commonly used “octopi” is a misnomer, combining a Latin suffix with a Greek word.
He explains that, in Greek, the pluralization would actually be “octopodes.” “But that’s still not technically correct,” he says, “because words adopted into English take an English plural suffix.” Oliver adds, “There, now you know how to end a Tinder date in ten seconds.” RELATED: John Oliver Goes Off On Cereal: ‘There Simply Aren’t Enough’ The host goes on to talk about the weird and wonderful world of octopuses,
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