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To: LibWhacker

Side note: the Yucatan peninsula is named after a mayan phrase. When the Spanish conquistadors asked the locals the name of this place, the locals replied “Yucatan”. So that’s what the Spaniards called it. What does Yucatan mean? It means “I can’t understand what you’re saying” in Mayan.

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8 posted on 03/29/2019 11:01:31 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: Celtic Conservative; dp0622

alas:

http://everythingcozumel.com/miscellenea/peninsula-history/yucatan-got-name/


14 posted on 03/29/2019 11:38:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie)
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