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On June 11, 1969, David Bowie's Space Oddity hit the airwaves. If you remember when the song first came out, you may also remember that its release was timed to coincide with Apollo 11's mission to the moon. Our linguistic connection to the tune is an odd one -- literally -- as we look at the word odd and some of its quirky offspring.

Odds are, you're familiar with the adjective odd, but you may have never heard about odd's ancestor oddi. That Old Norse term names a point of land, a triangle, or an odd number.

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