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TIL that "mannequin" and "manikin" are not just two different spellings of the same word, but do, in fact, differentiate between an unposable statue that displays clothing and a model that attempts to be anatomically accurate and/or posable.
English is weird as fuck.
TIL, I wrote this off as cultural spelling.
Wait, for real?
TIL too.