• DragonTypeWyvern
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      2 years ago

      They’re from Guinea!

      (Actually it’s apparently because they were a food animal that cost about a guinea…)

      • stebo@sopuli.xyz
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        2 years ago

        There’s a whole section about it on Wikipedia with a lot of speculation but the tl;dr is we have no clue why they’re called that