THA SUGAH RAIN I can academically appreciate and understand all of this, but if I start throwing around "octopodes" I'll have to explain myself, and since I'm not that autistic guy from Numb3rs, I don't relish in explaining myself after every fucking sentence.
Xiphias This video taught me I was not pronouncing "octopodes" correctly.
Yellow Lantern Were you saying "octopods"? That's what I've been doing.
Miss Henson's 6th grade class Be polite to the nice lady, you jackass. Anyway, as far as she's concerned, "pus" is ancient Greek for "foot" (cf: Oedipus).
rawelkij Greeks for some reason could not pronounce an "s" sound after a "d," so "d" + "s" becomes becomes just "s," though the stem is "pod."
mahlor She needs all that smart banged right out of her so she can think more about purses and shoes and less about the declension of marine life nomenclature.
cognitivedissonance Since when do we let DICTIONARIES decide our language mechanics?
fulakarp Every time she said "ignorant slob" I *know* she said "ignorant slob" but I kept hearing "ignorant slut" and that made this video magnificent.
Evilhead If I ever try to tell someone this they never believe me. Now I have a link to rub it in with. (I'm an English teacher by the way, so there are a few cases were this actually comes up in class/conversation, but I'm still probably a douche.)
Hooker My friends are the kind of people that would throw a fit if they heard someone say octopuses. I need better friends.
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