Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human immune system (2018)

Re:Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human i... by jacobolus on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @04:51AM (#28286410)

You have undoubtedly heard platypuses more often.

I have never seen nor heard anyone write or say “platypi” before now. Some web sleuthing suggests that platypuses is somewhere between 20 and 100 times more common in English.

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Re:Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human i... by Arnavion on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:08PM (#28291798)

Your web sleuthing has an American bias. I'm from an English-speaking country but I'm not American.

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Re:Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human i... by jacobolus on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:33PM (#28292193)

Are you from the 1830s? https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=platypi%2C+pla...

Platypuses don’t live in North America. Most of the older sources that Google n-gram is pulling from for the above chart are British or Australian.

A substantial proportion of the recent uses of platypi are grammar guides telling people that it should always be spelled platypuses.

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