Only if you believe that the word was invented by the Romans and not the Greeks, who actually coined the "horse of the river" word.

 

My dive friends got in such a tizzy about "octopus, octopi" that we now refer to them as "octopus" (singular) and "octos" (plural).
What is wrong with "Look at the baby hippo with the other hippos"?
Damn college boys always making the simple more difficult!

 

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There's gonna be a shootout between the grammar police and the excessive exclamation mark police.

 

Don't worry, the EPMUS guys will be here soon (Excesive Punctuation Mark Usage Squad).

 

Lawyer: Your Honor, my client is trapped in a penny.

Judge: What?!?!?

Lawyer: My client is in a cent.

Judge: You're going to jail with him...

 

It’s been a long week already....
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It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.....
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ahhh…..the days when pain from doing stupid things would stop people doing stupid things.


Working at a wharf nowadays it’s a laugh watching people put a hard hat and a vest on and think they can now walk under a crane with a container 20ft above them….

 

Ah the invincibility hat

 

Don’t knock the modern PPE... I have an old British Rail waterproof orange safety jacket I use at home in the wet .... and I have never ever been hit by a train while gardening ;0)
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