She's a turkey
While sitting with my French friend at a café, I noticed a young woman in a sari at the next table. I tried to comment that she was Indian, but instead said: Elle est d'Inde which sounds just like: Elle est dinde, she's turkey. My friend had a good laugh at my expense!
Sent by: Mary
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To make matters worse dinde which is literally a female turkey, is also a pejorative term for a stupid woman.
Actually d'Inde and dinde are the same word. Dinde evolved from coque d'Inde which at the time meant guinea fowl (which in french is now called a pintade). Anyway, the Turkey being a native of the new world was unfamiliar to the French settlers who called them guinea fowl, coque d'Inde which eventually evolved into simply dinde (dindon for males).
:) That must be very confusing
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