interestingly, the name of the bird probably comes from the country!
the bird was being traded around in Europe and Asia at the time, and nobody really knew where it came from. so most european languages have a different name for it, like in france where they thought it came from india, so they called it “dinde”. in england, i guess it was commonly thought that the bird came from turkey, so that’s what it’s called in english today!
(no i didnt learn this from etymology nerd what are you talking about)
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happy day commonly asociated with that bird that in contemporary english is commonly referred to by the name of that one country
lmao