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    Not a Pig. Not from Guinea.: Misleading Places of Origin in Everyday English
    Not a Pig. Not from Guinea.: Misleading Places of Origin in Everyday English
    Not a Pig. Not from Guinea.: Misleading Places of Origin in Everyday English
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    Not a Pig. Not from Guinea.: Misleading Places of Origin in Everyday English

    By Andrew Taubman

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    Guinea pigs are from South America yet Guinea is in Africa! And of course they are not like pigs. Why do we call them Guinea Pigs?

    Not a Pig Not from Guinea is a light-hearted book about the misleading place-names we use for ordinary things in everyday English.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookIt.com
    Release dateNov 22, 2018
    ISBN9781456632236
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