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re: Why the Frick does ESPN spell Turkey
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:01 am to soonerinlOUisiana
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:01 am to soonerinlOUisiana
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So what? frick the rest of the world.
That’s one way to look at it.
That mindset can lead to being surprised at making discoveries that the rest of the world knew about a long time ago.
In a way, it’s like the World Cup fans visiting the US and discovering our food is awesome.
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Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:06 am to LuckyTiger
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In a way, it’s like the World Cup fans visiting the US and discovering our food is awesome
What’s awesome about changing the name of Turkey?
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:07 am to LuckyTiger
Meanwhile Deutschland is forced to acknowledge themselves as Germany.
Cause screw the Krauts...
Cause screw the Krauts...
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:08 am to Y.A. Tittle
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Why are they still calling Deutschland, Germany, though?
No one is consistent in how they refer to Germany. We call it Germany because of the Latin influence on the English language but even across the Romance languages there is variation (Alemania v Germanía).
That said, the answer to your question is because Germany doesn't care. Turkey evidently does.
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:10 am to hubertcumberdale
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is it that big of a deal that international media outlets, such as ESPN, would display the native spelling of a countrys name during the WORLD cup which is watched by people all over the world?
Using that logic, Kiev/Kyiv should actually be ????. (board won’t post Cyrillic)
This post was edited on 6/26/26 at 10:11 am
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:14 am to Elihu
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because they thought it was getting confused with the Thanksgiving bird.
Benjamin Franklin recognized the intelligence of the turkey and actually promoted it to be the national bird of the USA.
I'm actually glad that didn't happen. While I recognize that the turkey is indeed a very intelligent animal, I've hunted turkey myself... and when the Toms are chasing hens, they're arguably the dumbest animals alive. I wish I still had the picture of that Jake standing on my boot while I was sitting under a tree and aiming at the Tom behind him that was trying to mount my decoy.
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:18 am to soonerinlOUisiana
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soonerinlOUisiana
You’re a fat redneck baw, aren’t you?
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:21 am to soonerinlOUisiana
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When speaking Turk
Turk? Good lord. What a dumbass.
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:23 am to SoWhat
Mooselimbs have long been pissed about it being spelled like the bird in English.
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:25 am to SoWhat
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Why the Frick does ESPN spell Turkey
Türkiye
I guess they liked it better that way
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:28 am to Mo Jeaux
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You’re a fat redneck baw, aren’t you?
Nope.
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:30 am to SoWhat
This is some new liberal woke virtue signaling bullshite. Someone determined it was offensive and culturally insenstive to refer to it as "Turkey"... that's too white sounding/looking. 
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:32 am to SoWhat
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Why the Frick does ESPN spell Turkey Türkiye
I saw it, and immediately assumed it was ESPN's leftist crybabies pandering like they so love to do. Just a further reminder that they're pretty vulnerable if anybody wants to make a run at the worldwide leader.
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:32 am to Tigergreg
It's now Turkiye--pronounced toor--KEY--yuh. And they play pretty good football, knocking Team USA off its high horse in the 98th minute in Los Angeles last night
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:33 am to Patato Salad
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More stupid shite for MAGA to be outraged about
Seems like some pussies were outraged about stupid shite when they made it a point to change the spelling and pronunciation after several decades... because it sounded to American or "white" or something. frick you, bitch.
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:35 am to SoWhat
That's the official, internationally recognized name. The reasoning was clear: “Turkey” in English brings up the Thanksgiving bird in search results and branding. The government explicitly wanted to avoid that association when Americans were looking up new deep fryer recipes.
Easy To Confuse
Hope you handled it ok when Swaziland changed their name to Eswatini to avoid confusion with Switzerland in 2018? That one came out of left field and was subject to international debate for weeks. Believe there was even an O-T post on it.
Countries switching to the native spelling or a shorter, preferred form:
Czech Republic / Czechia (2016)
Cape Verde / Cabo Verde (2013)
Swaziland / Eswatini (2018)
Macedonia / North Macedonia (2019)
Easy To Confuse
Hope you handled it ok when Swaziland changed their name to Eswatini to avoid confusion with Switzerland in 2018? That one came out of left field and was subject to international debate for weeks. Believe there was even an O-T post on it.
Countries switching to the native spelling or a shorter, preferred form:
Czech Republic / Czechia (2016)
Cape Verde / Cabo Verde (2013)
Swaziland / Eswatini (2018)
Macedonia / North Macedonia (2019)
This post was edited on 6/26/26 at 10:37 am
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:35 am to OldNo.7
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And another thing, it’s Constantinople
Not so fast...
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:37 am to Y.A. Tittle
The name "Germany" goes way back-- the ancient Romans named the country Germania. It's still Germany to everyone except the Germans
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:39 am to Tigergreg
I would tell anyone that America is not pronounced Amirikay fwiw.
Posted on 6/26/26 at 10:45 am to Clockworkoranjeooo
Whatever happened to Chechniya? They were in the news a lot about twenty years ago.
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