The world's languages can be grouped into those which call oranges oranges, those which call oranges apples and those which call oranges Portugals.
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Of those languages which call oranges oranges, a guest consonant often makes a cameo appearance at the start: N in Spanish (naranja), L in Portuguese (laranja) and T in Catalan (taronja), while Italian (arancia) does without.
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It's ironic that they're called "portugals" in Turkey, because in Portugal a turkey is called a peru, though at least in Peru a turkey is called a turkey. Elsewhere (e.g. Poland, France), a turkey is called an Indian. Basically nobody knows where the bird came from.
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Holly cow! You made me realize the relationship between "dinde" and "d'Inde".
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It's funny how this was obvious to me as a non-native... I'm sure there are other similar "logical" word constructions in French which might be invisible to a native.
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That is very likely indeed. There are also, less obvious constructions that stem from the historical relationship between French and English languages. For example, I've been told that "to flirt" comes from "conter fleurette".
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Sounds like an Easter AI.
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