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[Robert J. Hansen]

> Your etymology may be correct, as well as the common usage; but in
> zoology a turtle is an animal that lives only in the water, a tortoise
> is an animal that lives only on the land, and a terrapin moves between
> the two.

Huh!  Learn something new every day.  If you have a source for that, you
may wish to edit the Wikipedia page for turtles, which does not make
that distinction.  (Wikipedia, wrong about something?  Imagine that...)