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Folklore, Myths, Legends, and Fairy Tales

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[–] mercano@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

By this logic, nematodes are warms

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

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