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Ummm....

OP (or rather GP) said "Cacti is a plural of cactus."

You replied with "Cactus is (also) an English word and thus its plural is cactuses."

Only one of you made an assertion that implied that there was only one correct answer.

That seems like an overly-close reading of GP. I don't think they would pointing out the other pluralization of cactus unless they thought there was something off about the one the article uses.

Better an overly close reading (which I think is actually correct) than the one in which you literally misquoted their words inside quote marks.

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