Why Do Many Countries Have Guinea In Their Name?
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Guinea: www.britannica.com/place/Guin...
Guinea On Etymonline: www.etymonline.com/word/guinea
Why The World Has So Many Guineas: www.economist.com/the-economi...
Guinea BBC Timeline: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-afri...
Equatorial Guinea BBC Timeline: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-afri...
Guinea-Bissau BBC Timeline: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-afri...
Equator On Etymonline: www.etymonline.com/word/equator
New Guinea: www.britannica.com/place/New-...
Papua On Etymonline: www.etymonline.com/word/papua
Guinea: lifeinmathews.blogspot.com/201...
Guinea Fowl: www.britannica.com/animal/gui...
Guinea Pig Etymology: www.grammarphobia.com/blog/20...
Rite of Passage Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Did I say the word guinea too much? It sounds weird every time I say it now. Guinea.
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Please do "why does Chicago have so many nicknames?"
Name Explain l suggest toponyms related to “barranca”. It’s quite common in some places.
Name Explain it’s a great word and it sounds good the way you’re saying it here
"D-Day at Sainsbury's" sounds like some british WWII parody of Breakfast at Tiffany's
This needs more likes.
"And I said, How about, D-Day at Saintbury, he said I think I was at Gold Beach instead, and as I recall I think, that we helped de Gaulle out, and I said, well that's something we got."
Great I'm embarrassing myself on the internet by singing D-Day at Saintbury.
@@munichmapper3245
ROFL! 🤣 😂 😅
Munich Mapper why does Austria Baden-Württemberg and Munich use the same flag
@@welp4576 we may never know...
In Portuguese, we call guinea fowl "Angola chicken" and guinea pig "India pig".
@Swapn Lok Because they were conflated with turkeys, which come from the West Indies. This is also why we call turkeys turkeys, bur in reverse.
In some places of northeastern brazil, guinea fowl is also called "guiné".
Wait, we called it India pig in Chinese（天竺鼠，where天竺is the old name for India）as well. Probably rooted in Portuguese.
In Spanish we call them India Bunnies, which is a little closer biologically.
@@kwcy92 天竺鼠 is India mouse.
Patrick : You are my guinea pigs
Everyone : laughs nervously
No one is ever ready for the naked truth...
wait I read this comment before I knew his name I thought you meant Patrick from the show spongebob 😳
@@levilivesinwisconsin SAME
Curious fact: here in Argentina we call the guinea pigs "conejillo de India", which means "little rabbit from India". AND we also use this expression with someone who's being used to test something.
The standard Castilian form is "conejillo de Indias", "Indias" meaning "Indies". The broadest concept of "the West Indies" encompasses all of America.
Guyana: **visible confusion**
Guayana: "I bet you're feeling dumb right now"
@@alecity4877 guayana?
@@Gia1911Logous Guayana means the same as Guyana, land of the water, it's just a different language, Guayana is how the region of the states of Amazonas, Bolivar and Delta Amacuro in Venezuela, is called when grouped together.
French Guiana: oh, dans quoi je me suis mis maintenant?
@@greyjay9492 sorry i don't speak surrender language
"...called it The Gold Coast"
Australians: _IMPOSIBLE._
"We have no more places called Guinea"
Patriotic guinean amateur astronomer looking for new astronomical objects in order to name them after Guinea: hold my typical guinean alcoholic beverage
I think there's an exoplanet unofficially called after guinea. I repeat, unofficially.
I have one for you, palm *Wine is commonly used in Guinea as an alcoholic beverage in non-Muslim areas
I am very Srry guys, it is Palm wine, not palm oil, idek what I was thinking when I typed oil lmao
@@retf8977
What? Oil as a beverage?!
@@retf8977 quoi? De l'huile comme de boisson?
@@retf8977 Who gets drunk with palm oil??
Omg it makes sense now !
In Egypt the call the Egyptian pound guineh
Oh shit... I am from Egypt too and I didn't realise that until now... thx for pointing out
Yea we call it that cause when we were under British control we used the guinea coin a lot
in somalia the pound is also called guinea and our money is shillings
Paolo G Uh, Aussies don't use shillings, pounds or guineas, mate.
@@LunizIsGlacey We used to use them here in Australia decades ago
The coin is actually 21 shillings or £1.05 or 252 pence.
I think that was to allow for subsequent debasement of the coinage. It originally was 20 shillings.
They still use guineas at some equine auctions.
You would pay for items at auction in guineas, and the auction house would pay the seller in pounds sterling. The difference went to the auction house. It's money with the math built in.
One Guinea = one pound (£) and one shilling = 21 shillings = £1 plus 5%. So if I lend you a quid (£) at 5% then you owe me a guinea. A guinea is a reckoner for "a pound plus a bit", ie "a good pound"; it provides the middle-(wo)man with a bit s/he can skim off - like commission, interest or graft. Interesting.
@@alangknowles The guinea coin was worth 21 shillings because the gold used was so pure it was considered that much more valuable compared to an ordinary pound sterling gold coin. As the gold quality used gradually receded the guinea coin was discontinued. As a sales tactic guineas were kept for prices to imply the items were greater in value than similar items. Also in horse sales guineas were the traditional coin used when selling bloodstock and in horse racing prize money e.g. "The 2000 Guineas" .
@@sublicense18a13 I thought the price paid in guineas meant that the auctioneer kept the 5% as commission and the price given to the seller was the same number in pounds.
Why is a pound (£) and a pound (lb) called the same thing?
A pound used to be worth a pound of a certain precious metal.
It's "Pound"-sterling 😂😂
Honestly, what's most confusing to me, is why "pound" is abbreviated to "lb".
Like... is it just me, or does anyone else *not* see any l or any b in "pound"?
@@taliyahofthenasaaj7570 lb is short for libra, a Latin word. It is where we get the pound Sterling symbol
@Venky Wank actually it's just Latin for pound which back then was 12 oz. (0.34 kg). I believe the connection between that word and liberty/freedom is coincidental (I forgot the real word you're supposed to use here -any foreign language teacher should know it though)
0:24 **sad Welsh noises**
*confused Manx noises*
I didn't even realize that till u said that
Edit: spelling
Egg Shoot, didn’t even notice. But, Wales is officially part of England, so, tough luck, Welshy.
Cap'n Cake Actually Wales was once part of the kingdom of England, but now has a devolved parliament. Admittedly it’s not at autonomous as Scotland, but it’s its own thing these days
@@capncake8837 nah mate
“What should we call our country slightly north of the equator?”
*E Q U A T O R I A L G U I N E A*
Surely there is some native word of endearment or common geographical/national sentiment, principle or aspiration that can be used. Come on now. I know my African peeps can do this.
Although the continental part of Equatorial Guinea is just north of the equator, the country has islands south of the equator (I mean the capital is on an island north of the mainland as well). So the full country straddles the equator.
@@trevorwoodley3897 , I think the most common reason for doing anything is: because that's pretty much how it has been done up to now.
@@trevorwoodley3897 The country, just like so many post-colonial countries in the world, was created by the White Man. Native words are for lands discovered and marked by the native people, not countries whose borders were drawn by foreign colonialists. A Middle Eastern example can be Syria. The native Arabic name for the whole region including modern-day countries of Lebanon and Palestine (and parts of Jordan) was "ash-Sham." Thus the borders of Syria drawn by the French colonialists does not exactly correspond with a region in Arabic geography. Hence Syrians adopted the name "Suriyya" for their country from the French.
@@AshrafAnam, I understand all of this, which is why I think Guineans need to cast off that horrible, clunky colonizer name.
Hello I am Portuguese, I am precisely doing work on this topic.
In fact, during the period known as Portuguese discoveries, at an early stage of exploration in Africa the region called "Guinea" referred to the entire broad region of Cape Bojador until Angola.
This is why countries in this region have guinea in their names.
Book used: Hermano Saraiva, José, Historia Concisa de Portugal, Publicações Europa-América
The word Guinea was believed to have been a Portuguese mispronunciation of Djenné an ancient city in Mali, West Africa
Exactly
Agnaou and gnawi are words of berber origins, used in morocco to talk about people from west africa. No relations with Djenné which they could have pronounciated easily.
Djenn is Spirit Man, or Jinn.
Djenne (Guinea) means SPIRIT WOMAN in the Soso language, spoken in Guinea.
“So why is the island called new guinea?”
Please dont...
“When a spanish explorer...”
Stop...
“They looked similar to the african guinea people”
God dammit....
“And papua means frizzy because they had frizzy hair”
OH FOR FUCKS SAKE!
WhiskyPapa the accuracy 😂😂, this should have waaay more likes
So what? This isn't racist. It wasn't meant to be insulting just stating facts.
Here in the Philippines I live in the Island called Negros. And you know why its called that way
If anyone was racist it was the explorers not Patrick
I thought either you or I was having a stroke when you kept trying to say "Turkish merchant's" 😂
The British guinea was 21 shillings (1 pound plus 1 shilling), not 20 shillings, which was just 1 pound.
There is a Municipality in Nicaragua's Southeast (South Atlantic/Caribbean Autonomous Region) named Nueva Guinea, (nueva means new in Spanish) with its municipal seat, the city, also named like that. The reason it got that name is because of the Guineo tree that grew there. Guineo is like a kind of plantain in Nicaragua (in other parts of Latin America Guineo is the word used for banana), so when the first settlers arrived they noticed the Guineo tree (called simply a Guinea). Suposedly Guineas don't usually grow in that region of the country so it was a curiousity for them to see one lonely guinea, the settlers used to extract resources like wood and rubber from the region and when they took a break they would gather next to the guinea, so people started saying: "let's meet at La Guinea", so that's why the name stayed. It's called "New" Guinea because the original settlement is not where the current city is located. The word Guineo derives from the origin of the bananas and its varieties coming all from western Africa.
Been here since before episode 4. Love your vids this one in particular was great always wondered about the prefix.
Have an awesome day.
I was under the impression this was a video ready for publication, which would make me not a guinea pig.
Portuguese be like: *I'm going to name you the N-Word*
So my guinea pig is a niggah hamster. Cool!
The Portuguese used the G-word, they explained that in the video. The Spanish used the N-word.
Rob Fraser lol “G-word”. It’s not offensive at all, so drop that. Say Guinea. Actually, modern portuguese doesn’t use this word in this meaning anymore. It would be anachronism to use it that way or to be offended by it.
@@JoseFernandes-js7ep they actually named after a River
It's funny because the English "N-word" developed from Portuguese or Spanish "negro" which means black.
In modern day Portuguese "negro" is the neutral way of referring to a black person. Meanwhile another word also meaning black, "preto", is the offensive way of calling a black person. But that's not the one that developed to become "unsayable" in English. This has always got me thinking...
This might be my favorite video so far. It’s interesting, like all Name Explain videos, but I really enjoyed seeing how it was linked to other names and terms like Turkey or a Guinea pig in an experiment. Good work!
Wow, what a thorough and FUN tour -- thank you! And no, you didn't say the name too much -- the subject demands it. Love your subject -- gonna check out your other shows pronto. Have always LOVED names of all kinds -- I collect 'em for fun pen names and online handles etc.
Makes a video about Guinea.
Italians have left the chat.
Now they know the truth sicilains are black descended
Haahahhahahahhha
@@kaleahcollins4567 Sicily 's history is a very complicated one. But condensed yes it is! Do not forget the Normans.
Kaleah Collins No West African DNA. You mean North African, the Berbers and West Asian as part of their ancestral makeup; however, Sicilians are basically Mediterranean people and are genetically similar to the people from Malta and Cyprus...
Why?
Guinea pigs in the Quechua language are called cuy, it's an onomatopeia.
Knowing what sound guinea pigs make, that's hilarious.
When I was a kid I was able to imitate the sound they make, and when I did they would squeal back
And in spanish it's called cuyo or conejillo de indias
In the Quechua language they seem to be called Quwi. Cuy is south american Spanish. qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quwi
As always... your videos are amazing! Learned so much with this
I remember your 4th video well. Congratulations on all of your progress.
The Egyptian Pound is called guinea in Egypt. We also have a shilling which equals 5 piasters. An Egyptian Guinea equals 100 piasters.
Well, we pronounce it Geneh, But the coastal people usually still pronounce it Guinea
That is because it was at one stage worth almost the same value as a British Guinea
So Papua New Guinea translates to something along the lines of “frizzled new black people”
lol
I don't want to be 'that guy' but I thought frizzled hair was part and parcel of being black, I've always been under the impression that it's a pain in the arse to straighten so you either keep it short, grow an afro or (if you're a woman) sacrifice 2,000,000 hours over your life time styling it.
This was really a cool video, this is something I actually wondered about through the years, so thanks!
Loving this channel. Thanks!
Wrong....a Guinea was worth 21shillings not 20shillings. We had Guineas in Ireland also. This is where the name Guinness came from!
Okay that one is a shocker! Would not have guessed that. Send this video needs an addition.
The worth of a guinea in 1663 was initially one pound, but it fluctuated with the price of gold (up to as much as 30 shillings) and was fixed to 21s in 1717.
Never knew there was so much Guineas in the world.
Need to learn geography more.
There were so many Guineas. Not much Guineas
That was enlightening! Subscribed.
So much information crammed into a single video. 👍
Also, a guinea pig could refer to an Italian cop.
It shouldn't, though.
That's a Fredo pig.
Everyone who disliked this video was Welsh
Why??
@@etienne7930 0:25
Wow. I had that question few days ago but forgot to look it up. But now I can watch this video. What a service :)
Good video. Thanks for making it.
What do you do for work?
Im a guinea pig for NameExplain, not a high paying job, but damn is it rewarding
0:27
>including Wales and Cornwall as part of England
You'll be lucky if you only get a few burglaries at that point bro
Whoa, is the situation there THAT bad?
stupid nationalism
He had Ireland as being Britain aswell 🤣 The lads Geography is all sorts of arseways.
Thanks for making this video. I have always been confused about all the guineas.
Amazing content, keep it up!
0:25 So you are from the UK and you think that Wales is part of England?
Not a kingdom, just sayin
And he is English, I think
Brad Smith No it isn't. Wales is Wales. England is England.
Brad Smith The act of putting Wales under English law happened in 1542, but the Welsh are still their own ethnicity (As are English), and the country of Wales is a recognized principality. They also speak a different language.
You tell a Welsh man that he's English, and you'd soon change your mind.
Guinea was also a pejorative word for Africans during the global slave trade.. The N- word replaces the word Guinea during Colonial times in America..
Mom: What would you like for dinner sweetie?
White guy: A roasted guinea...
Black friend: You pathetic racist! How dare you?
White guy: I meant the bird, idiot!
been watching since new guinea. just wanna say great channel ^-^
I was watching back then with the 4th episode on Guinea! Cheers! 🍻
The Egyptian currency, the Egyptian pound, is called "guinea" in Arabic
“Gold Coast”
Me:What like the one in Queensland
This was excellent
Commenting to support Name Explain.
I was raised in Western New Guinea. Neat place, though often tarnished by foreign companies exploiting the resources, the occasional tribal wars, and separatist uprising.
At least it has Raja Ampat.
0:24 he highlighted england wrong, he included Wales
The video I’ve been waiting for my entire life
0:53 Nigeria and Niger and the Niger river : hold my hunger
Since when does England contain Wales!
I caught that too, at 0:26.
Gary Dodgson r/foundthebrit
0:25
*welsh triggered*
I thought about the Macedonia name issue too as you were explaining the situation with the 3 Guineas
TLDW: Guinea was an old name for West Africa, The Colonizers thought that the people in Papua looked like the people they had seen in Africa because “aLl BrOwN pEoPlE aRe ThE sAmE” and guinea pigs names are still debated
I'm pretty sure he explained all that in the video.
sion8 that’s what TLDW is, it’s a brief summary for people who don’t want to watch the whole vid
You said, “1963” for Spanish Guinea independence but it said, “1968” on the map.
Always I think of Guinea pigs whenever I hear or read that word, even the coins.
In the lower left corner, text flashed at that moment, "why did i say 63?" Hes aware of that, he made note of it, but he didnt re-record it.
Connor Amlee must’ve missed that. Thanks for pointing it out.
@@dixgun What Conner said.
@@NameExplain senpai noticed me!
For a while, I had two extinct in the wild Simandoa cave roaches from Guinea. They were discovered in 2004 in a single cave. Months after it was discovered, that cave was scheduled to be mined for bauxite. Luckily the guy who discovered them brought a handful of them back to the US and they’ve been thriving thanks to roach hobbyists. They’re the only Simandoa species
Thank you for clearing up the whole Guinea thing
And the whole Turkey thing
Man, that Sean Connery line really got me, hahaha! In spanish, we call guinea pigs (especially as a "animal to be used to make tests" concept) "conejillo de indias" (literally "little rabbit from the indias").
Great video as always!
Guineas were worth 21 shillings. A sovereign was 20 shillings. It all started because the Guinea was so pure it was woth more.
Why was Wales in your map of England?
King In Prussia False. England and Wales are two of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom (the other two being Scotland and Northern Ireland).
For a large part of its history, Wales was owned by England - and was probably during the time that New England was settled
@@MrCubFan415 Northern Ireland isn't technically a country like England or Scotland, it's more like a province of the UK.
King In Prussia wrong
Meimu Skooks It won’t be for much longer.
You're Epic! Love from Ialandistan
Love being a guinea pig to your videos. Still one of my favorite CZcamsrs. Guinea pigs are soooooo adorable and they make cute noises.
The original name of the guinea pig, given by the pre-inca cultures that domesticated it, is cuy.
A lot of people use cavy too, which could be related, or because they live in caves, I'm not sure.
"Because they were Turkish merchants"
"Because they were Turkish merchants"
"Because they were Turkish merchants"
"Because they were Turkish merchants"
"Because they were Turkish merchants"
"Because they were Turkish merchants"
That was really interesting
Italians in the USA were also called Guineas back in time around beginning 20th century.
It`s well documented in Mario Puzo`s book " The Godfather"
In Russian language, Guinea pig is called "Морская свинка" (translates as Sea Pig)...
Which word means sea? Morskaya or Sbinka?
I think this may have something to do with capybaras? They look the same, just one is giant and likes to swim.
carultch Morskaya
04:00 Yet þere are two (2) countries called "Congo" today.
...I like the þ use...
þiccness
The Name Explain-drawn guinea pig is very cute
As a Nova Scotian I feel it my duty to find out! I will see what I can dig up.
You could legally head hunt other humans in Papua New Guinea up until the 1960s!! 😳
dingo588 well that’s disturbing
MADLAD GHETTIO totally bonkers! I just made a video about it for my Chanel. I had no idea it happened up until so recently
Please make video about why Berber people want foreigners to call them as Amazigh? Thanks
This, please.
@Swapn Lok Because "Berber" is a name given by the Romans that meant "barbarian" (the word "barbarian" and "berber" are just two different evolution of the same latin word: "barbarus"), although Romans called "barbarians" every non-roman/non-greek people.
@Swapn Lok Interestingly, the Berber kingdom of Numidia was an ally of Rome and was later incorporated in the Empire. It is likely that the Romans did not negatively call them "Barbarians" or did not call them by such a name at all (or made a difference between their numidian Berber ally and other Berber tribes). Instead, I think the use of the term became popular to qualify the Amazigh during the Moorish invasion of the Iberian peninsula (Moors were, for the most part, Amazigh people).
@Swapn Lok During the seventh centuries (600s~700s) with the expansion of the muslim caliphates.
But the conversion to Islam was quick as the moorish invasion of Iberia started in the early eighth century.
However, the nomadic Amazigh people who lived in the Sahara converted more slowly to Islam due to strong trade relations and influence by the different muslim caliphates.
But don't take me on my words, I am not a historian, the knowledge I have is only knowledge from someone who is interested in history.
@Swapn Lok and "Assassin" apparently comes from the word hashish (marijuana's sister plant); apparently, before going off to murder their enemies the "assassins" got high on hash.
Eyy was waiting for the Ecuador mention when Equatorial guinea was mentioned. Ecuador FTW!
I grew up near Guinea, Virginia. Strange place, strange people-they don’t take kindly to strangers, so they remain very isolated and have been dealing with the consequences of a diminished gene pool. At least that’s what I was told as a kid-it’s possible they are more integrated today. I became fascinated by them after being in line behind a man and his wife at the 7-11 and listening to how they spoke. I could tell it was English, but it was very difficult to understand, especially as a child. I wanted to go into the town of Guinea to meet people and have them teach me how to speak like that-my parents told me in no uncertain terms that that was not going to happen.
Why did you put Wales in red, when talking about ENGLAND.
because wales will kill us all and he needs to warn us
Because red is the national colour of Wales. It wasn't being lumped in with England, it was just coloured in Welsh red.
Italian people have a lot of (quite humorous) derogatory terms for themselves. Wop, dago, paisan, Guido, but the relevant one is that they are also called Guineas. Not gonna lie, I was hoping for an etemological root for that one
Yes, I've wondered where that derogatory term came from. C'mon Patrick.
In Polish, guinea pigs are called "świnki morskie", which means "piggies from the sea". So, if the Polish name for them is to be believed than the guinea men explanation seems the most likely:)
thank you! you cured my curiosity
You missed the City of Genoa
And Geneva lol
Wales is not England.
it will be 🇬🇧
Yay, I've been watching/subscribed since New Guinea, Western New Guinea, etc. And yes, guinea pigs are adorable!!
and delicious apparently
Great video! In portuguese we call the Guinea pig ''porquinho da Índia'', meaning ''India pig'' and the Guineafowl by ''galinha d'Angola'' meaning ''Angola chicken''. Thought that could be a nice piece of trivia for you ;)
"It might seem crazy to our modern ears that the place is named after the color of their skin, but this really was a different time."
Me: *laughs in Negros Oriental/Occidental*
The Spanish named it that way for the same reasons.
Egypt's original name Kemit (from which the word chemistry comes), means "land of the black people". Speaking of original names, I think the time has come for African countries and other former colonies to reclaim/coin the names THEY gave/want for their respective countries and cast off the colonial ones.I heard South Africa is planning to do just that and I applaud them. As for all the Guineas in West Africa, you go first please. LOL
@@trevorwoodley3897
The original name of Egypt does not mean “land of the black people”! It means land of the black earth! This is reference to the very fertile land surrounding the Nile specially after flooding.
¿Negros Oriental/Occidental? Nunca he escuchado eso.
@@sion8 , and your point is?...That Egypt wan't a land of black people before the Arabs, Greeks and other groups from Asia minor overran it? Basically doing what caucasoid groups seem congenitally unable to restrain themselves from doing? Namely, stealing what belongs to other groups.
@@trevorwoodley3897
Trevor Woodley
Ancient Egyptians are a group of people related to people from the Middle East, WAY before any modern Arabs ever made it to Egypt, besides you can't use our current ideas about race to reflect on those people from the past. _KM.T_ (because we aren't truly sure about the original pronunciation, probably _kumat_ but _kemet_ is the most common today) has its origins not from the people, but the lands around the Nile which turn dark after the yearly flooding, this in contrast to _DŠṚT_ or red land meaning the desert.
The Coptic language, the modern descendant of Ancient Egyptian is an Afro-Asiatic language just like the Berber/Amazigh languages and Semitic languages (Arab and Hebrew are such languages), the languages of the Horn of Africa also belong in that group. They share many features and vocabulary not just from borrowings. These languages and the people that speak them aren't directly related to those from the rest of Africa.
Tell me this if Ancient Egyptians were black (they weren't just like most North African people), why would they have called their own country the Land of Black People?
Remember folks a Guinea is an extremely derogatory term offensive towards Italians and Italian Americans.
Really? I hadn't ever heard of that, just _guido._
@@sion8 It has lost popularity in the last 100 years and has fallen to others like dego, wop and some others. It's first recorded use was Guinea N***** to compare Italian-Americans of those to the indigenous peoples of Guinea Africa. Then quickly just becoming Guinea still maintains the meaning.
@@francescologreco8584
Oh, wow! I mean my college sociology teacher did mention once how Italians were thought of as the same as African-Americans. So, I guess that explains that.
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The story about the sailors or far off lands and the Guinea pigs sounds similar with how in my language (Bulgarian) we call them морски свинчета (translated - little sea pigs)
It’s a very strange name but many people were not very smart back then.
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8:34 “while these things are freakin’ adorable, they’re also compulsive liars”
-Patrick 2019
Got confused for a second because I thought this was supposed to be a Spongebob meme
And TBF that does sound like something Patrick Star would say
Hey Patrick how do you do? I'm from Brazil and your videos are always very interesting mate, keep it up!
In portuguese the name for these animals changes a bit but it still refers to countries, just other countries. For exemple:
7:42 the guinea fowl is called 'angola chicken' (galinha de angola)
7:53 the turkey is 'peru'
8:32 and the guinea pig is called 'little pig of india' (porquinho da índia) but it also goes by "cobaia" wich literally means test subject, which totally makes sense with your explanation. One thing tho, since I mentioned Peru and you also said the guinea pigs are from south america, is that in Peru the guinea pig is a food dish.. yeah they eat the poor little things. :/
4:16 The northern neighbors are imposers. Macedonia = Greece.
Us serbians tried conquering them many tim3s too. You just gotta accept that they are a actual people with their own culture language and territory.
All the slave states. Funny fact italians are called guineas especially if they Sicilian
Even funnier is that, in fact, Guinea is a derogatory and bad name referring to italians.
Initially, a guinea made of a quarter ounce of gold was worth one pound sterling or 20 silver shillings, but the rise in gold price relative to silver caused the value to increase as high as 30 shillings. Sometime in the early 1800, It was officially fixed at twenty-one shillings.
Pretty sure the Papua video is one of the first of yours I saw! Dunno when that was though.