→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Inventing the TV Dinner https://youtu.be/8C86EdBfNgo?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0HjtNM-IuWjliZeLoLVNan The Celestial Message in a Bottle https://youtu.be/1UMrdGausDs?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0GESJ0DgpgTcThLJVEbFs8 In this video: In the 16th century, when North American turkeys were first introduced en masse to Europe, there was another bird that was popularly imported throughout Europe and, most relevant to this article, England, called a guinea fowl. This guinea fowl was imported from Madagascar via the Ottoman Empire. The merchants who did this were, thus, known as “turkey merchants”. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/11/why-turkeys-are-called-turkeys/ Sources: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=turkey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Turkey http://urbanext.illinois.edu/turkey/history.cfm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_%28bird%29 http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/02/opinion/l-etymology-of-turkey-437693.html http://www.jdstaxidermy.com/photo_album2.html