Guinea, Guyana, French Guiana, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Guinea (coin), Guinea (bird)…
by TerryFromFubar
Guinea, Guyana, French Guiana, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Guinea (coin), Guinea (bird)…
by TerryFromFubar
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hway? Hway was this needed. I understand the historical reasons but hway still.
Also an anti-Italian slur
Originally West Africa as a whole
Weirdly enough guinea pigs got that name because they were traded to Europeans from ports in west Africa which was called the Guinea region… and also people probably started trading them as a source of food not as a pet because that is how they were first presented
I’m assuming a lot of terms attributed to Guinea likely comes from the fact that they were traded through a port in Guinea before going to Europe
Wiktionary is your friend uf you want to look up a word.
Whoever translated Papua Nugini as Papua New Guinea:
I love that weird historical quirk of the guinea as an obsolete coin becoming a unit of value. 1 guinea = £1.05 or 21/-. As if the old British £sd system wasn’t confusing enough, the class snobs had to add this.
“far away land”
Guinea Pig
Fun fact: the word Guyana is unrelated to the Guinea region. Guyana comes from a local indigenous term. People just often conflate the two words because both regions are tropical and were heavily colonized. But really it’s just coincidence.
Guyana ≠ guinea