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Some countries whose endonyms are not like their English exonyms (lemmy.sdf.org)
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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

... Turkey named corn after what Egypt calls itself?

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

And spice after India

[–] retrolasered@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

No, after what jar jar binks calls himself