theotterone@lemmy.world to aww@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoA nutria enjoying a snacklemmy.worldimagemessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1300arrow-down13file-text
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minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·11 months agoIt’s basic pluralization. aquarium ➝ aquaria bacterium ➝ bacteria millennium ➝ millennia nutrium ➝ nutria
minus-squareradix@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·11 months agoDid you read the provided article?
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·11 months agoDid you read a dictionary?
minus-squareradix@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·11 months agohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nutria It says there, as well as in the Encyclopedia Britannica someone linked earlier, that “nutria” is the singular form.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·11 months agoThat’s clearly a mistake on their part that requires correction.
minus-squareazulavoir@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·11 months ago“did you read the dictionary” mfs when the dictionary disagrees with them (not all words are latinate in origin)
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·11 months agoI guess not everyone can be as enlightened as me
It’s basic pluralization.
aquarium ➝ aquaria
bacterium ➝ bacteria
millennium ➝ millennia
nutrium ➝ nutria
Did you read the provided article?
Did you read a dictionary?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nutria
It says there, as well as in the Encyclopedia Britannica someone linked earlier, that “nutria” is the singular form.
That’s clearly a mistake on their part that requires correction.
“did you read the dictionary” mfs when the dictionary disagrees with them (not all words are latinate in origin)
I guess not everyone can be as enlightened as me