>>Corn is America origined too. We calls Egypt and Corn as same name as "Misir". Because corn had came Turkey from Egypt's merchants after America founded.
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>In Hungary, potato is called "burgonya" - because it came via Burgundy. Sunflower is called "tengeri" - "of the sea", because it came overseas.
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>We call tangerines - mandarines. BTW, melons and cantaloupes we call by a collective name of "bostan" - do you have any idea why? The word sounds Turkish to me.

That's interesting. Around here, we refer to tangerines and mandarins separately. I think the tangerine is a type of mandarin orange, but usually the tangarines we get have a redder rind than the mandarins.

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>>But when England beat us at football matches english newspapers writes "We fried turkey" . It make us angry Terry... Next time we will fry you...:)
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>Do it on Fryday :).