Thanksgiving is now over, but fridges around the US will most likely be stocked with leftover turkey for quite some time to come. The turkey is quite an enigmatic bird in fact. It is now known to have originated in North America: across Canada, the US, and Mexico. Yet, on account of chaotic trading routes all over the world, there was much confusion in almost every language as to where the bird actually originated. The French thought it had come from India, hence 'dinde' (d'Inde). Indians, on the other hand, assumed Peru, hence पीरू (Peru). Khmers named it 'French Chicken', Arabs named it 'Ethiopian Rooster', Malays named it 'Dutch Chicken', and the list goes on. As for English, where do you think we assumed it had come from? Yep, Turkey.
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