FenrirIII@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL the difference between Possums and Opossumswww.bobvila.comexternal-linkmessage-square43linkfedilinkarrow-up1122arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1113arrow-down1external-linkTIL the difference between Possums and Opossumswww.bobvila.comFenrirIII@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square43linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaremagnetosphere@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up15·2 months agoUntil right now I thought they were just different spellings of a word that meant the same thing. Like “color” and “colour”.
minus-squareegrets@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoThey absolutely are, in that the species from America got shortened from “opossum” to “possum” (with both versions still in use), and then the similar-looking Australasian animals were given the same abbreviated name.
Until right now I thought they were just different spellings of a word that meant the same thing. Like “color” and “colour”.
They absolutely are, in that the species from America got shortened from “opossum” to “possum” (with both versions still in use), and then the similar-looking Australasian animals were given the same abbreviated name.