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🌫️ @dampcloud.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Chart showing names used for the North American bird in different languages. North Macedonia calls it misir, from Egypt. In Egyptian Arabic Arabic, it's called dik rumiyy, or Byzantine cock. It's called galopoùla and dinde in Greek, both of which mean from India. France also uses dinde. In the Khmer language used in Cambodia, the bird is called moën baarang. In Scottish Gaelic, it is eun-Frangach. They both refer to France. Poland and Russia also refer back to India, calling it indyk and indjùk respectively. The Netherlands uses kalkoen, referring to the city of Calicut in Kerala, India. Seven calls it kalkon, making the same association. In Malayalam, which is spoken in Kerala, the bird is tarkki, referring to the country of Turkiye. This is the same association in English as well. The name in Hindi is piru, which refers to Peru. Brazilian progress used the name Peru, while Serbo-Croatian makes the same association by calling it puran. In Peru, the bird is called paca, which doesn't have a geographical etymology. In Syrian Arabic, the bird is called dik al-habas, or Abyssinian cock. The name in Amharic is jigra, which also doesn't have a geographic etymology.

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🌫️ @dampcloud.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

It has always included the idea of the white West getting stuff freely from the rest of the world catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0...

The caption reads "Hibernia attended by her brave volunteers exhibiting her commerical freedom". Hibernia is depicted holding up a banner with the words "Free Trade" above her head; she is surrounded by an African, an American Native Indian, and a woman - all of them offering gifts up to her. Two soldiers stand next to a tree watching the scene while ships sail on a stormy sea in the background behind her. Barrels of tobacco lie to her left, her harp and a cornucopia lie at her feet.