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[–] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Fun fact: pierogi is plural. A singular one is a pierog.

Edit to fix terrible typos

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I thought it was like squid and squid where the plural and singular are the same but wouldn’t it make more sense if it was like octopi and the singular of pierogi is pierogus?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Octopi is actually a false cognate--octopus comes from Greek, not Latin, so the plural would be octopodes. Octopus and octopuses are the generally used terms in modern English.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Yeah but pieroguses just doesn’t make sense.

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