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English words that derive from European place names
Noah Cox
Zachary Myers
romance
Samuel Wood
>cravat
holy fuck my life has been changed now
Carson Hall
why are we coloured blue if there's no words?
Aiden Hill
Hello r/eddit
Logan Gonzalez
>Mayonnaise comes from Menorca
I had no idea
Logan Perry
Danish, guess blue is for when the name of the country is used instead of a place within it
Colton Parker
>balaclava
>Crimea
REALLY makes you think
Nicholas Sanders
Is this actually something new to Americans?
Jayden Parker
Danish is the word.
en.wikipedia.org
Nathaniel Evans
I think there were thinking more in en.wikipedia.org
Bentley Howard
Does Turkey the bird derive from Turkey the country? How?
Austin Hall
>Bugger — also bowgard, bouguer (ancient French – bougre): from Latin – Bulgarus, a name given to a sect of heretics who were thought to have come from Bulgaria in the 11th century, afterwards to other "heretics" to whom abominable sodomising practices were imputed in an abusively disparaging manner.
kek
Nicholas Kelly
it was kind to colour poland and ukraine :)
Sebastian Gonzalez
map is retarded.
Just aren't necessarily related if they just happen to sound similar.
Ian Kelly
I feel very Sardonic today
David Scott
>tfw dog is half spaniel
Anthony Nelson
I bet we're blue because of that rat faced, walking ball of cotton.
Jeremiah Reyes
>spruce
>a place in germany
>when it's literally "[wood] from prussia"
Cameron Ramirez
Chase Jenkins
didn't even know half those words existed tbqh
Aaron Stewart
Uhh...
en.wikipedia.org
You can't just expect everything to be included everywhere dude.
Parker Carter
Not really comparable, one is a kind of knife virtually unheard of outside of Scandinavia, the other is a major skiing discipline.
Jaxson Roberts
>bugger
Jason Phillips
I think there was a similar looking pheasant in Turkey as there was in the New World, so they called it the Turkey bird, and then Turkey for short.
Robert Hall
>italics are in italics
heh
Adrian Parker
The terrain Karst is derived from an area in Slovenia, so somebody needs to change that map once more:
John Taylor
>coach
??
Caleb Hall
After the Hungarian village of Kocs
Adam Cooper
Dominic Bell
I own a Mora but never heard of your skiing thingy
David Thompson
>Doesn't include asspain
bad map.
Jace Flores
This doesn't even seem to be complete