Why Do Many Countries Have Guinea In Their Name?

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[NameExplain]

Did I say the word guinea too much? It sounds weird every time I say it now. Guinea.

[feyk]

"D-Day at Sainsbury's" sounds like some british WWII parody of Breakfast at Tiffany's

[sohopedeco]

In Portuguese, we call guinea fowl "Angola chicken" and guinea pig "India pig".

[pegeonpera]

Patrick : You are my guinea pigs
Everyone : laughs nervously

[FlorenciaVM]

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.

[oggaming]

Why is a pound (£) and a pound (lb) called the same thing?

[martinokhalil]

Omg it makes sense now !
In Egypt the call the Egyptian pound guineh

[gevensil]

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

[johnkilmartin]

The coin is actually 21 shillings or £1.05 or 252 pence.

[CB]

"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

[Child_of_Amun]

The word Guinea was believed to have been a Portuguese mispronunciation of Djenné an ancient city in Mali, West Africa

[anandashankarmazumdar]

The British guinea was 21 shillings (1 pound plus 1 shilling), not 20 shillings, which was just 1 pound.

[gamoviestudios]

"...called it The Gold Coast"
Australians: _IMPOSIBLE._

[deetmapping]

“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*

[Whiskypapa]

“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!

[mrms]

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.

[taliasilvey]

I thought either you or I was having a stroke when you kept trying to say "Turkish merchant's" 😂

[TheInglip]

I was under the impression this was a video ready for publication, which would make me not a guinea pig.

[francescologreco]

Makes a video about Guinea.

Italians have left the chat.

[robertrdlc]

Guinea pigs in the Quechua language are called cuy, it's an onomatopeia.