Skunk cabbage does not grow 'mostly in Canada'. It's wild all over the eastern US, likes swampy areas, and it's quite a nice plant in its own way. The variety down here (at least as far south as Virginia, though friends in North Carolina report being familiar with it as well) is usually purple and spotty, but there's no mistaking the smell. I like it- it's stubborn and brave enough to come out in the winter, and how cool is it to have a plant that gives off enough heat to melt the snow?
Actually, octopi is the incorrect plural. Octopuses is correct, or octopodes, but octopi is not.
Octopus is a word of Greek origin ("eight feet"). The correct plural, based on Greek, would be Octopodes (pod or pous is the singular, podes is the plural).
If you want to treat it like an English word, just use the standard +(e)s, making Octopuses.
Changing the -us to -i is treating it like it's a Latin word, which it ain't. It's trying to sound pretentious when it's really just misinformed.
Octopus is a word of Greek origin ("eight feet"). The correct plural, based on Greek, would be Octopodes (pod or pous is the singular, podes is the plural).
If you want to treat it like an English word, just use the standard +(e)s, making Octopuses.
Changing the -us to -i is treating it like it's a Latin word, which it ain't. It's trying to sound pretentious when it's really just misinformed.