Beginning Notes: Drabble 1 of 3 27/07/14
Title: Ianto Jones, Linguistics Professor
Author: Daashi
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack Harkness, Ianto Jones, Owen Harper, Gwen Cooper
Pairings: n/a
Rating: 13+
Genre: Drabble, Humour
Warnings: n/a
O: "It's octopuses."
G: "It's octopi, it's latin."
O: "Learned latin since last week have you Sweetheart."
G: "No, but everyone knows it latin."
O: "Everyone use to think that the world was flat didn't make it true."
J: "Okay kids, what are we fighting about."
G: "The plural of octopus. I'm right and Owen refuses to admit it."
O: "Cooper reckons it's octopi and I reckon octopuses."
J: "Well it sounds like we need an expert. Ianto a moment of your time."
I: "Yes sir."
J: "We have a debate on our hands, a very important question that humanity has asked itself since the dawn of time."
I: "Really sir."
J: "No actually just Gwen and Owen squabbling like children."
G: "Hey!"
O: "Oi!"
I: "About what?"
J: "What is the plural of octopus, octopi or octopuses?"
G: "I say octopi."
O: "Octopuses."
J: "So who is right."
I: "Neither. The plural of octopus is octopodes, it is a remnant for the original Greek, oktopous; 'okto' meaning eight and 'pous' meaning foot. Octopi comes from the common misconception that becomes it ends in 'us' it must be latin. Although octopuses does fit English better."
O: "Suck on that Cooper!"
G: "You weren't right either."
J: "You, go to one corner of the hub, and you, the other corner of the hub. And children don't speak to each other until I say so."
~End
Word: Octopodes
oc - to - po - des : the plural of octopus
End Notes: I just added this word to my list when I came across it on dictionarycom, there was a link with the wording; 'Octopuses or Octopi? What's the proper plural.' Being the serial link clicker that I am, I clicked.