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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Yes, an easy typo error to make, but they do look a lot more like a seal than a lion, probably because they are seals. As are elephant seals. Not sea elephants.
A seal lion looks around at all the seal lions sleeping around it.
The seal lions jumped in the water about the rock. The seal lions like the water.
A seal lion surfs in a wave with a container ship in the background. The group of elephant seals bask in their usual spot in the middle of the…
guess no fish wants to be a seal lion’s meal. The seal lion lunged into the ball.
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Are we still doing the low-hanging fruit award? “Seal lion” is a strong candidate.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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