Timeline for Should I use hippopotami?
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| Feb 17, 2015 at 11:07 | comment | added | Jon Story | My personal favourite is Hippopotamice. Because it also sounds like a superhero team. | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 10:21 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | actually, that's a valid approach, brcause hippo means horse, and potamus means "of the river", so it makes sense to pluralize the first part rather than the last. I've seem some discussion that suggested (tongue-in-cheek) "hippoepotamus" which is how the Greek plural would be formed. And plural "octopus" would be "octopode" | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 10:05 | history | answered | Jon Story | CC BY-SA 3.0 |