Jul. 17th, 2021

pauamma: Cartooney crab wearing hot pink and acid green facemask holding drink with straw (Default)
[personal profile] pauamma
One thing I'd like to do, if I had enough spoons and enough access to anatomists or health professionals across the world, is find out the unmarked order for merging "urinary" and "genital" into a single word, or if they do. (Eg, English "urogenital", French "génito-urinaire".)
pauamma: Cartooney crab wearing hot pink and acid green facemask holding drink with straw (Default)
[personal profile] pauamma
Why is it *checks toothpaste tube label* -ide in English, Dutch, and Spanish, but -ure/-uro in French and Italian? (At least for fluoride, but chloride uses the -ure suffix in French at least.)

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