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[n]
▶ whaling ▶ whale hunting ▶ whale fishing
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| 2. | A 2019-04-24 14:13:34 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...> | |
| Refs: | "hunting" is more common too: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph? content=whale+fishing,whale+hunting&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t 4;,whale fishing;,c0;,s0;;whale fishing;,c0;;Whale Fishing;,c0;;Whale fishing;,c0;% 3BWHALE FISHING;,c0;.t4;,whale hunting;,c0;,s0;;whale hunting;,c0;;Whale Hunting;,c0; ;Whale hunting;,c0;;WHALE HUNTING;,c0 But "whale fishing" should probably be included as well, misnomer or not, as it's still used. |
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| Diff: | @@ -17,0 +18 @@ +<gloss>whale fishing</gloss> |
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| 1. | A* 2019-04-24 12:22:39 Nicolas Maia | |
| Comments: | "Whale fishing" is a misnomer, since they're mammals, not fish |
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| Diff: | @@ -17 +17 @@ -<gloss>whale fishing</gloss> +<gloss>whale hunting</gloss> |
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