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Some countries whose endonyms are not like their English exonyms (lemmy.sdf.org)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And spice after India

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No, after what jar jar binks calls himself