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Mark Sainsbury, Fishy business, Analysis, Volume 74, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 3–5, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/ant098
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Abstract
There are problems both with the supposition that ‘fish’ was once used with a meaning that includes whales, and with the supposition that it has always been used with a meaning that excludes them. The problems are illustrated by a trial in 1818 in which the jury ruled that whales are fish.
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