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  • Try it out and see. It certainly comes from a Latin word, but did it bring along its Latin plural form? Many don't. Commented Jan 25, 2014 at 18:28
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    @JohnLawler: Should I check its passport into English-land then?
    – einpoklum
    Commented Jan 25, 2014 at 18:30
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    "Apparatus" has Latin plural "apparatus" (not "apparati"--my Latin teachers would be appalled). English can either accommodate the Latin plural "apparatus" or use the English plural "apparatuses" of the anglicized word. Both are correct.
    – MPW
    Commented Jan 25, 2014 at 23:50
  • Definitely never octopi - the original word is Greek but is octopous; so octopus is always an English word taking an English plural. Antipodes is a Greek plural, but oddly one never sees thee singular, although when people in Europe say that I'm from the antipodes I point out that so are they - I'm from the southern antipous, they're from the northern. An otherwise useful website referred to in this discussion claims that datum is never used in English; an engineer will quickly disabuse you of that misconception; certainly I prefer to treat data as plural but wouldn't say it was wrong to do ot
    – user72194
    Commented Apr 16, 2014 at 1:51