• mercano@lemmy.world
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    Mythology also has worms, wurms, or, in some cases, wyrms. All pronounced the same, but they tend to get bigger the further down the alphabet the vowel gets.

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      3 days ago

      By this logic, nematodes are warms

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        If you hail from certain rural counties in Utah a generation back, they always have been. Just ask anyone from Spanish Fark.