How do you spell possum/opossum?

Me and my brother got into a fight i said possum/opossum is spelled like this possum and he said its spelled like opossum. This fight happened a long time ago when i didn't have an email.How do you spell possum/opossum?
technically it's Opossum if you're talking about the American one. There's an animal that looks like a weasel in Australia that is called the Possum.How do you spell possum/opossum?
The name goes either way, but it only applies to the opossum, a animal in the western hemisphere,


possum is also an animal in Australia.


so opossum = possum/opossum


possum = only possum
the species name is Virginia Opossum
you can spell it either way but I think opossum is more correct.
Both is correct.

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