Thread: ¿El pollo o el huevo?
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Old July 25, 2009, 04:24 AM
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Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar View Post
@Brute: nice sentences, but I have a couple of remarks:

Mexico's touristy city is Cancún, not Calcún.

And in Spanish, a turkey is a "pavo" and a peacock is a "pavorreal".
(Similar words, but not the same)
The Latin name for a peacock is also pavo. Does the real part of pavorreal mean royal oo just real in this contextThe French call a turkey "dindon or dinde".
I wonder if this means Indian (d'Inde)?

A bilingual "menu do dia" outside a bar in Portugal had TURKEY V PERU written in large letters at the top. A crowd of English football supporters came in expecting to see an international football match. Instead they had a turkey lunch!!
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