As someone who is frequently pedantic I sometimes sit and hypocritically brood on which unnecessary pedantry from other people annoys me most I've decided it's people who try to draw a distinction between the word "possum" and "opossum"
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The rule in the Navy is that "boats are launched from ships", and in the old days a submarine had to be carried to sea by a ship to be deployed, so submarines were by definition boats
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The only way for a submarine to be upgraded to a "ship" is to itself carry boats, which no submarine can do despite how big they've gotten, because of the whole underwater thing
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