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Friday, January 07, 2011

hares and coneys

i finally understand the difference! and now for the whopper:

i was always told that "guinea pig" translated into hebrew is שפן ניסויים (shafan nisuyim), and so that's what i've used. how surprised was i last night to discover that the actual term for "guinea pig" is חזיר ים (chazir yam) or "water pig"!

the first translation means "experimentation rabbit". i find this fascinating.
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