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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Subject: Re: Turkey - the bird
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In article <3h4h3g$ncp@net.auckland.ac.nz> asi_beh@ccnov2.auckland.ac.nz (Tim Behrend) writes:
 > Indonesian:  ayam belanda (Dutch chicken) or kalkun (from Dutch kalkoen)
 > 
The first one is interesting.  The Dutch was originally "Kalkoensche Haan",
i.e. "Cock from Calcutta".  But in Indonesia the turned it the other way
around, not Calcutta (nearby) but the Netherlands; not a Cock but a Chicken.
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