{"id":6541,"date":"2018-12-01T12:50:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T12:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utalk.com\/news\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2020-07-02T11:34:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T11:34:42","slug":"how-the-turkey-got-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/how-the-turkey-got-its-name\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Turkey Got its Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-1186757482.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-1186757482.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-1186757482-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-1186757482-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-1186757482-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-1186757482-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Spoiler alert: it was a mistake!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Brit forebears got in a flap when it came to naming the festive feathered fowl because it didn\u2019t come from Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story goes that they named it after the sea merchants from Turkey who imported the bird, incorrectly assuming that the bird originated from their country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the bird, which was first brought to the UK in the 16<sup>th<\/sup>century, was actually native to the Americas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what did the Turkish people call the bird \u2013 because they would have known its real origin, wouldn\u2019t they?\u00a0\u00a0If so, they didn\u2019t let on.\u00a0\u00a0In Turkish, the turkey is called hindi from the Turkish word for India, Hindistan!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4>The uTalk\u00a0#12LanguagesofChristmas\u00a0giveaway has arrived!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uTalk\/\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uTalk\">Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/utalk_app\/\">Instagram<\/a> for details of different festive traditions and stories from around the globe. We&#8217;ll be posting every other day starting on Saturday 1st December and ending on Monday 24th December. The first person to correctly answer our quiz question of the day will win a prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spoiler alert: it was a mistake! Our Brit forebears got in a flap when it came to naming the festive feathered fowl because it didn\u2019t come from Turkey. The story goes that they named it after the sea merchants from Turkey who imported the bird, incorrectly assuming that the bird originated from their country. But &#8230; <a title=\"How the Turkey Got its Name\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/how-the-turkey-got-its-name\/\" aria-label=\"More on How the Turkey Got its Name\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}