[Lexicog] Turkey

[Centrum.cz]

> Did you know that the Czech adjective for 'cruel' is 'krutý' while the
Czech adjective 
> for '(of) turkey' is 'krůtí'? 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.

As a native speaker of Czech I can assure you that Czechs do puns. There
are thousands of jokes based on puns and Czech people love telling them
and hearin them.
The problem with 'krutý' and 'krůtí' is simply that they are not
homophones by any means.

Best

Jan F. Ullrich




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