• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Alpha means “first”, it does not mean “wolf who fights other wolves while in captivity according to one study.”

    Do people not know this?

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      22 days ago

      No, alpha is the anglicization of the first letter of the greek alphabet. It doesn’t mean ‘first’ any more than the letter A does.

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        21 days ago

        You’re wrong according to any dictionary ever printed, sorry.

        It has more than one definition, and one of those is “first”, and you must accept that as fact.