Eels
Eels
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Ouchie fishy
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spicy noodles
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I don't know, but that makes me wonder. Why are we still wasting time saying Electric Eel when we could say eEel?
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zappy slithers
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It was always that name. Electricity is named after the fish.
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Lightning snakes
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This, more that likely. Lightning has been around long before man poked out of his cave. And we know that back in the days of Vikings, pretty much anything that slithered was deemed a serpent.
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Actual serious answer: electric eels are exclusively South American, so the indigenous peoples there probably do have their own names for them which would likely pre-date the discovery of electricity.
(Electric fish known to other cultures would have been electric catfish, not electric eels.)
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According to this, in ancient Egypt they were called the thunder of the Nile, or the angry catfish! haha
https://visual.ly/community/Infographics/education/electricity-usage-ancient-civilizations
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"Ancient Egyptian texts dating from 2750 BCE referred to these fish as the "Thunderer of the Nile"'
-wikipedia electricity