But it only takes 3.5 hours per turkey and a day has 24 of them. So if some people get up at 3am it works out!

I even looked through the article to see if it is mentioned somewhere at least but no. They give a four hour battery as an example but is that representative? Who knows 🤷

Effective at what? Germany capitulated only once it was almost fully occupied (e.g. Berlin, Rhineland). The bombs might have helped by binding resources and demoralizing the population but that didn’t affect the capitulation directly.

The Latin origin. Words ending on -us turn almost always into -i in plural in Latin. And that’s where it comes from (octo eight, pus/pes foot).