Word: meerschweinchen
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...them with irradiated narkotin [to demonstrate the storage possibilities of Vitamin C]. They make charming pets. However, as Ellis Parker Butler once informed his readers "Pigs is Pigs.'' Your abstractor is guilty of too literal translation from the German (or Norwegian) and has derived porpoises from Meerschweinchen, probably by way of sea pigs. This error is not unheard of, but should make the little guinea pig smile...
Just how can a porpoise suffer from scurvy, or did a translator, looking up "Meerschweinchen" (guinea pig) stop at "Meerschweinchen" (porpoise) and let it go at that? The error is so ancient (if this surmise is correct) that I am surprised TIME should have been caught...
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