theotterone@lemmy.world to aww@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoA nutria enjoying a snacklemmy.worldimagemessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1304arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1301arrow-down1imageA nutria enjoying a snacklemmy.worldtheotterone@lemmy.world to aww@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square24fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down3·9 months agoThe singular is nutrium.
minus-squareNegativeLookBehind@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up9·9 months agoOk but how nutritious are they? I’m on a diet.
minus-squareRandomunemployment@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoPeople are trying to make nutria jumbo a thing in Louisiana.
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoSome guy here sells Nutria meat loaf.
minus-squaretheotterone@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·9 months agoPretty sure it’s nutria: https://www.britannica.com/animal/nutria ; anyway enjoy the nice creature!
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·9 months agoIt’s basic pluralization. aquarium ➝ aquaria bacterium ➝ bacteria millennium ➝ millennia nutrium ➝ nutria
minus-squareradix@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·9 months agoDid you read the provided article?
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·9 months agoDid you read a dictionary?
minus-squareradix@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·9 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-down4·9 months agoThat’s clearly a mistake on their part that requires correction.
minus-squareazulavoir@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months ago“did you read the dictionary” mfs when the dictionary disagrees with them (not all words are latinate in origin)
The singular is nutrium.
Ok but how nutritious are they? I’m on a diet.
Just one.
People are trying to make nutria jumbo a thing in Louisiana.
Some guy here sells Nutria meat loaf.
Pretty sure it’s nutria: https://www.britannica.com/animal/nutria ; anyway enjoy the nice creature!
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)