[lou1306]

Or in the words of Moby Dick's Ishmael, "I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me".

[ZeroGravitas]

But as QI fans know,

There's no such thing as a fish

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Such_Thing_as_a_Fish

> For example, a salmon is more closely related to a camel than it is to a hagfish

[blenderdt]

But that assumes Jonah's fish was a whale. But we don't know.

But it might have been a whale: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/12/whale-mouth-...

[LudwigNagasena]

It also misses the fact that Jonah didn’t speak modern English and so he couldn’t talk about “fish”.