# Real-world examples of 'Ummm, acktually, It's X, not Y' nitpicks, and discussion about them

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You’ll often hear “well actually, X is an ape, not a monkey”, but it’s rather more nuanced than that. Cladistically, apes are a subgroup of monkeys. Common usage tends to use “monkey” to refer to all simians except apes, but excluding apes from other simians doesn’t have a reasonable biological basis.

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