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** Richard Lederer's "[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go2573/is_4_29/ai_n29150810/ Foxen in the Henhice]" is based around the same concept.
* There's a joke about someone shipping a pair of mongooses to a zoo and being unsure of what the plural of "mongoose" is. They start out writing a note referring them to "mongooses", then try "mongeese", and eventually resort to writing "Enclosed is the mongoose you ordered. Also enclosed is the other mongoose you ordered".
* "Boxen" goes back to the early (pre-home-computer) days of computing, when one would build a computer out of various components, each in its own box. As for brands of computers, there was the VAX - if you had more than one, you'd refer to your VAXen.
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{{spoiler|Incidentally: '''''Octopodes'''''. It's from the Greek.}}
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