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Title: Aquatic life
Identifier: aquaticlife319171918baus (find matches)
Year: 1917-1918 (1910s)
Authors: Bausman, Joseph E
Subjects: Aquariums; Fish culture
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. E. Bausman
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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Slquatic litt 31 laid simply awaiting the initiative of the male. The intercourse between the sexes was in some cases I noted confined to a single pair, though mostly it seemed to be promiscuous. In fact, these animals seemed to have nearly unlimited powers of intercourse." The form found along the Jersey coast an accent that makes it rhyme with soup But down here in Chicago they call the fish the "guppy," pronouncing it in such a way that makes it jibe with puppy. Orsinger and Keedy just returned the other day, from a trip to Philadelphia where the fish is called "goo-pay." And in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and in
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Opaque-scaled Japanese Broadtail Goldfish Courtesy of Harry P. Peters is Fiindulus hetcroclitus macrolepidotus. Fundulus, of the bottom; lictcroclitits, different angle or slope ; macrolepidotus, large-scaled.—Editor. Help Wanted! Lebistes reticulatus or Girardinus guppyi or Acanthocephalus reticulatus! I got him in Milwaukee, where they call the fish the "goop"—they give the word Nashville, Tennessee, Pm told that all the fish-fas call the fish the "goo- pie-ee." They can talk of simple spelling, and rules of punctuation, and can want a standard dialect for all this mighty na- tion, but I, a humble citizen, do hereby file my wish, for a little pocket manual to pronounce the names of fish.—Webber of Chicaao.

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