After a little bit of checking in my etymological dictionary:
- Plane: Derived from the latin planus (meaning flat)
- Planet: Derived from the greek planḗtai (meaning wanderer/wandering)
The only way they are simillar is that one has an extra "t" in English, which means they are next to each other in the aforementioned dictionary.
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2024-03-20, 06:19 PM (ISO 8601)Troll in the Playground
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Re: Proposal: Uranus et. al. should no longer be called "plane-ettes".
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