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Thread #49293 Message #867092
Posted By: Bob Bolton
14-Jan-03 - 09:53 PM
Thread Name: BS: German 'Catters? Help with translation
Subject: RE: BS: German 'Catters? Help with translation
G'day all,
There is a recurring mention of mongoose: I might mention the the meerkat (literally "sea-cat" ... in Dutch/Afrikaans?) is a social breed of mongoose - unless you get on the wrong side of it!
A drift from "sea-hare" to "sea-cat" is quite in line with our own confusion of the two ... maybe all traceable to the Latin for "hare" = lepus ~ le pus(s). Maybe pet meerkats were popular ... no worse that pet ferrets ...