[Lexicog] Turkey

[Nick Miller]

>>Or "cold turkey" or "you turkey!" Poor animal to be used in such a way!

 

Fritz,

Did you know that the Czech adjective for 'cruel' is 'kruty' while the Czech
adjective for '(of) turkey' is 'kruti'? They sound almost identical, but
have nothing in common linguistically. However, Czech people are never
impressed with my attempts at puns with these kind of word 'pairs'. They
don't do puns. I suppose you have them in German?


Nick 

 




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