A Plural I Never Thought About
rogersgeorge on January 30th, 2022
The word “cochlea” is like the word “fish.” Singular and plural are the same. Here’s the text that made me think of this. It’s from Scientific American December 2022, page 46.
The primary structure of hearing in the skull is called a cochlea. Both of your cochlea would fit on the face of a dime with room to spare. If your cochlea were the same relative size as a bat’s, each would be about the size of a golf ball.
So there you have it!
Here are two pictures. I googled them. You’ve probably seen something like these:
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