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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Subject: Re: Calicut - Calcutta
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 01:27:22 GMT
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In article <477233151.60643487@inform.inform-bbs.dk> OSA@inform-bbs.dk writes:
 > The turkey (in many languages Kalkun) is not named after Calcutta i Bengal
 > but after Calicut in Kerala South India, the city where Vasco da Gama landed
 > i 1498
 > where did you (Dik T. Winter,dik@cwi.nl,Internet)  look up the wrong Calcutta
 > information?

I found it in a Dutch ethymological dictonary.
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