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    1 year ago

    Technically it started as two words… cat + abbreviation of the latin name (nepeta).

    I don’t know how i feel about this pedantic argument being my very first contribution to Lemmy, but here we are.

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      1 year ago

      I think you misunderstand what I mean. It comes from 2 separate words being put together, but as far as I’m aware it’s always been a compound word, as in it’s always been called catnip, not cat nip.