"YOU! You did this!"

Mar 18, 2025 12:29 AM

SquirrelWithATophat

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bird

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turkey

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Circe007

How was called for Native Americans? We Mexicans raise them since long ago, we call'em "guajolote" from two words huey=great and Xolotl=monster. This last word is used too for atl=water atlxolotl or ajolote, and xolotl escuintl=dog, xoloscuintle

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Sechran

Basically, "Turkey" was a generic term for "exotic" and that got applied to the bird where that was the common parlance. Obviously, that wasn't the case everywhere, so you end up with myriad terms for it, all kind of pointing to the idea of an "exciting, far away origin" but never quite landing on the same (or right) one.

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PacMan4Life

Since Covid, we have a rafter of 15 of them walking around our office building. The correct pronunciation of the name is "Run!"

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YuffieK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8eFIadtQkQ

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YuffieK

Alternatively:

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