Did you know that an infant marsupial is called a "joey"? "Marsupial" is a class of mammals that carry their young in a pouch. Exactly, animals that carry their joey in a pouch! As a German native speaker I found this term funny. I wonder if English native speakers feel the same way. It might be funny for anyone born outside of Australia, a continent known to be the homeland of a wide variety of marsupials. I learned about this curious fact during my research on emoji names. It began when I a...
