This is a download from BBC Learning English.
To find out more, visit our website.
6.8 English from the BBC.
Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English, I'm Neil.
Hello and I'm Catherine.
Now, Catherine, how do you feel about cephalopods?
Cephalopods.
Yeah, you do know what cephalopods are, don't you?
Yeah, of course I do, it's a new kind of iPod, isn't it?
Not exactly, no.
A cephalopod is a kind of sea creature, like a squid or octopus.
Hello, cephalopods, yes of course I know what a cephalopod is.
Of course you do.
Well, today's program is all about one of these squishy creatures.
The octopus, which apparently is a pretty clever animal.
To start here's today's quiz question, what is the correct plural form of octopus?
Is it A, octopuses, B, octopodies, or C, octopi?
What do you think, Catherine?
Okay, I think this is a trick question.
I think people think that it's octopi, but it's actually, there's a technical term for it,