• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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      17 days ago

      Yes but the name of the dance doesn’t come from the bird. I think it comes from ‘Flemish’, which is also ‘flamenco’ in Spanish.

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      17 days ago

      It could be worse. I knew flamenco means flamingo and that there’s a Spanish dance called the flamenco, but never made the connection that there could be Spanish flamingos until now.

      • Danquebec@sh.itjust.works
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        17 days ago

        Well, to your defence, there are no English lions, yet they’re prominently present in symbols of English culture.

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          17 days ago

          But knowing us, we’ll just have stolen the lions from another country during our angry-little-man phase :)