Is the English“guinea pig”a pig from Guinea, and the German “Meerschweinchen” a piggy from the sea?, or two old problems revisited
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Publication date: 30.06.2014
Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2014, Volume 131, Issue 2, pp. 221-228
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Is the English“guinea pig”a pig from Guinea, and the German “Meerschweinchen” a piggy from the sea?, or two old problems revisited
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