Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1894 — Octopus or Cuttlefish. [ARTICLE]

Octopus or Cuttlefish.

Dispatches from Washington state that on the authority of a clerical congressman the proper pronunciation of octopus is cuttlefish. Here the authorities clash. According to Victor Hugo it should be devilfish. Possibly the clerical congressman, being a Unitarian in theology, prefers to say cuttlefish because he does not believe in the existence of the devil.