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>Opossum, also commonly known as possum; from the Virginia Algonquian aposoum, 'white beast'.
Ah, but I wasn't addressing the issue of what they are "commonly known as." I was addressing the issue of whether the American "possums" were the the only "real" possums. It seems that the only "real" possums are, in fact, the ones that are fully protected by law in Oz, and are a lethal nuisance here in Zild. Even the Algonquian original sticks a vowel in front of the "posoum" bit of the name, after all. The real possums up here in the South shouldn't be stigmatised becauase y'all have dropped an o from the real name of the faux possums, now, should they?
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