Well, I'm glad to have helped, or something. *grin*
Being from Singapore with its Chinese-Singaporean majority, they were lions to me first, and that's what's stuck.
As for the tongue-twister, my personal favourite has always been the Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den, but the idea of illiterate, dead, stone lions is oddly compelling...
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Date: 2011-01-25 01:10 am (UTC)Being from Singapore with its Chinese-Singaporean majority, they were lions to me first, and that's what's stuck.
As for the tongue-twister, my personal favourite has always been the Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den, but the idea of illiterate, dead, stone lions is oddly compelling...