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An isogloss or a political border? 🥶🥶🥶

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[–] muhyb@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

In Turkish, when you say "fıstık" alone, people would understand peanuts as well. However peanut is "yer fıstığı" while pistachio is "Antep fıstığı" or for the pink ones "Siirt fıstığı".