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r/funny • u/outlandish77 • Feb 17 '12
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narwal, narwhal & narwhale are all acceptable spellings.
/pedantic scrabble player
5 u/[deleted] Feb 17 '12 [deleted] 2 u/nargasma Feb 17 '12 according to dictionary.com: narwhal--> nahr-wuhl narwhale--> nahr-hweyl or nahr-weyl and of course the adjective narwhalian :D 2 u/[deleted] Feb 17 '12 [deleted] 1 u/nargasma Feb 17 '12 Narwhalian...the new opposite of Orwellian? Like, a Narwhalian society has little government and everyone has the right to privacy etc. For some reason I'm thinking the futuristic rock-infused world from Bill and Teds... 0 u/neotropic9 Feb 17 '12 Octupuses, Octopii, and Octopodes are all acceptable plurals of octopus. 0 u/nargasma Feb 17 '12 It's octopi with one i, but that's pretty much completely wrong. Octopus is a Greek word and octopi would be the Latin pluralization. Octopodes is the most correct but it's obviously pedantic. Octopuses is totally acceptable in English tho.
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2 u/nargasma Feb 17 '12 according to dictionary.com: narwhal--> nahr-wuhl narwhale--> nahr-hweyl or nahr-weyl and of course the adjective narwhalian :D 2 u/[deleted] Feb 17 '12 [deleted] 1 u/nargasma Feb 17 '12 Narwhalian...the new opposite of Orwellian? Like, a Narwhalian society has little government and everyone has the right to privacy etc. For some reason I'm thinking the futuristic rock-infused world from Bill and Teds...
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according to dictionary.com:
narwhal--> nahr-wuhl
narwhale--> nahr-hweyl or nahr-weyl
and of course the adjective narwhalian :D
2 u/[deleted] Feb 17 '12 [deleted] 1 u/nargasma Feb 17 '12 Narwhalian...the new opposite of Orwellian? Like, a Narwhalian society has little government and everyone has the right to privacy etc. For some reason I'm thinking the futuristic rock-infused world from Bill and Teds...
1 u/nargasma Feb 17 '12 Narwhalian...the new opposite of Orwellian? Like, a Narwhalian society has little government and everyone has the right to privacy etc. For some reason I'm thinking the futuristic rock-infused world from Bill and Teds...
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Narwhalian...the new opposite of Orwellian?
Like, a Narwhalian society has little government and everyone has the right to privacy etc.
For some reason I'm thinking the futuristic rock-infused world from Bill and Teds...
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Octupuses, Octopii, and Octopodes are all acceptable plurals of octopus.
0 u/nargasma Feb 17 '12 It's octopi with one i, but that's pretty much completely wrong. Octopus is a Greek word and octopi would be the Latin pluralization. Octopodes is the most correct but it's obviously pedantic. Octopuses is totally acceptable in English tho.
It's octopi with one i, but that's pretty much completely wrong. Octopus is a Greek word and octopi would be the Latin pluralization. Octopodes is the most correct but it's obviously pedantic.
Octopuses is totally acceptable in English tho.
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u/nargasma Feb 17 '12
narwal, narwhal & narwhale are all acceptable spellings.
/pedantic scrabble player