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FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
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Merisiga in Estonian which also translates to sea pig.

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stebo02@sopuli.xyz
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how’s guinea pig any better?

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DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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They’re from Guinea!

(Actually it’s apparently because they were a food animal that cost about a guinea…)

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stebo02@sopuli.xyz
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There’s a whole section about it on Wikipedia with a lot of speculation but the tl;dr is we have no clue why they’re called that

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nakal@kbin.social
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Well,…

  1. The swam over to us (that’s why “sea”)
  2. They make squeeky sounds (that’s why “pig”)
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volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
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It’s the same “translation” in Russian btw

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