I've seen many seagulls in my life.
But I've never seen any of the others.
And that's terrifying. Stay vigilant.
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Wrong.
Seagulls imply the existence of Rivergulls, Lakegulls, Mountiangulls, Desertgulls, Forestgulls, Plaingulls, Valleygulls, Hillgulls, etc.
Archipelagulls
Most of what we consider "seagulls" dont actually go out to sea. It's all lies.
The seagull is the state bird of Utah. About 400 miles from the nearest ocean.
So they are lakegulls then.
They're seaadjacentgulls.
Bay-gull. Bagel.
Bay-hull; loves explosions.
Don't forget THA GOOD SHIP MERRY GULL!
I think a "landgull" would just be a pigeon
Nah, that's an airgull. A landgull would be a chicken.
Nah, that's a farmgull. A landfill would be an ostrich
No that's where garbage goes, landgull would be a peacock
No, that'd be a fancygull. A landgull would be a rat.
No that would be a politigul. A landgull would be a gopher.
No, that's a dirtgull. A landgull would be a kangaroo.
In light of the above, then, I hereby propose that squirrels get renamed to "treegulls."
It's all fun and games until the firegull nation attacks.
My brother and I discovered the new Gulliver...
If there are armadillos, where are the legadillos?
Given how much cuter a goldfish is than a silverfish, whatever a bronzefish is must be a absolutely disgusting.
Stands to reason, yes. Maybe also navyadillos and airforcadillos.
And what about the Dillos who don't want to be armed?
unarmadillos?
also, spacegulls
Space gul
Attention Bajoran workers...
thank you.
Reminds me of a John Hodgman bit - we have ice hockey, field hockey, and air hockey, implying the existence of fire hockey.
Don't forget bay-gulls. They love fish, especially smoked salmon
I used to study animal management and there was a lecturer who wrote his uni thesis on "seagulls" and any time he heard someone call them seagulls he'd shout down the hallway "They're herring gulls!"
Seagulls are not just herring gulls though. The term is used for any gulls people see near the sea. In the UK that's herring, great black backed & and lesser black backed, black headed, common, and kittiwakes.
A birdwatching friend of mine has decided that if he ever discovers a new species, he's naming it "seagull" regardless of where he finds it or what it looks like just to piss off all the ornithologists.
Long ago, the four gulls lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the fire gulls attacked...
Or at the very least a rivergull
Water-Gull. Earth-Gull. Fire-Gull. Air-Gull. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire-Gull Nation attacked.
vol-gul.
I live in Colorado and there are gulls here, we are far from the sea.
You have to go pretty far back (to proto-Celtic, it looks like) to find a linguistic ancestor for the word "gull" that doesn't just mean "that specific bird."
But in proto-Celtic, it looks like "weilanna" probably meant "wailer." As in, "one who wails," though we don't know exactly what the suffix "-anna" means. A similar word in that language would've been "wailos," which even though it sounds similar seems to have been unrelated to our modern term "wolf," as it comes from a different proto-indo-european root.
Anyway, the word "gull" does refer to the sounds that it makes more than anything else. So in figuring out what a landgull, airgull, and firegull might be, we need to find something noisy. Or just something annoying, given the derisive connotation of "wail."
Edit: This is, of course, assuming that we're looking for different existing types of animals to be these creatures, rather than just (for instance) creating new, elemental forms of gulls; or "reskinning" seagulls with different elements; or inventing all-new animals to fill those roles.
Wailos or wailer is wolf, is that because they “wail” (howl?) Or is that just a coincidence?
I propose that cobras be referred to as firegulls. The hissing for the noise, and the venom spit into your eyes is “hot” (spicy).
Water. Earth. Fire. Air. My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace when the Avatar kept balance between the Seagulls, Landgulls, Firegulls, and Airgulls. But that all changed when the Firegulls attacked.
I love baygulls.
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