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Turkey: Names for a much-travelled bird
About 1530, a new dish began to be put on English tables, a fowl a
little larger than the traditional goose, but with a lot more meat and a
refreshingly new taste. This bird had been brought to England by
merchants trading out of that area of the eastern Mediterranean called
the Levant but whom the English called âTurkey merchantsâ because that
whole area was then part of the Turkish empire. The new bird was
therefore called a âTurkey birdâ, or âTurkey cockâ. Within a few years
it had become a favourite and familiar domestic fowl, to the extent
that, sixty years later, Shakespeare knew his groundlings would
understand the reference to the turkeyâs aggression display of blowing
out its breast and strutting when he described the posturings of
Malvolio in /Twelfth Night/:
SIR TOBY BELCH: Hereâs an overwheening rogue!
FABIAN: O, peace! Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him; how
he jets under his advanced plumes!
The interesting thing about the mistake over the turkeyâs origins is
that the English were the only people to believe they came from Turkey;
nearly everyone else, including the Turks, thought they originated in
India, or at least in the place they then thought was India. Turkeys
actually came from Mexico and were first brought back from there about
1520, at a time when that area was called /The Spanish Indies/ or the
/New Indies/, illustrating the confusion in peopleâs minds about the
true location of this new land that Columbus had found. As a result, a
lot of European languages, as well as others like Arabic and Hebrew,
called it something like the âbird of Indiaâ.
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Whole article: http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/turkey.htm
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