Why Do Many Countries Have Guinea In Their Name?

[@NameExplain]

Did I say the word guinea too much? It sounds weird every time I say it now. Guinea.

[@mildredlopez7636]

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[@mildredlopez7636]

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[@Donut-Eater]

Please do "why does Chicago have so many nicknames?"

[@Pobazca]

Name Explain l suggest toponyms related to “barranca”. It’s quite common in some places.

[@dixgun]

Name Explain it’s a great word and it sounds good the way you’re saying it here

[@feyk9638]

"D-Day at Sainsbury's" sounds like some british WWII parody of Breakfast at Tiffany's

[@NameExplain]

This needs more likes.

[@munichmapper3245]

"And I said, How about, D-Day at Saintbury, he said I think I was at Gold Beach instead, and as I recall I think, that we helped de Gaulle out, and I said, well that's something we got." Great I'm embarrassing myself on the internet by singing D-Day at Saintbury.

[@TheCimbrianBull]

@@munichmapper3245 ROFL! 🤣 😂 😅

[@welp4576]

Munich Mapper why does Austria Baden-Württemberg and Munich use the same flag

[@munichmapper3245]

@@welp4576 we may never know...

[@sohopedeco]

In Portuguese, we call guinea fowl "Angola chicken" and guinea pig "India pig".

[@SamAronow]

@Swapn Lok Because they were conflated with turkeys, which come from the West Indies. This is also why we call turkeys turkeys, bur in reverse.

[@loldelol34w56436]

In some places of northeastern brazil, guinea fowl is also called "guiné".

[@kwcy92]

Wait, we called it India pig in Chinese（天竺鼠，where天竺is the old name for India）as well. Probably rooted in Portuguese.

[@SenorVilla]

In Spanish we call them India Bunnies, which is a little closer biologically.

[@Peterwhy]

@@kwcy92 天竺鼠 is India mouse.

[@pegeonpera]

Patrick : You are my guinea pigs Everyone : laughs nervously

[@Mystic_Stirling]

No one is ever ready for the naked truth...

[@levilivesinwisconsin]

wait I read this comment before I knew his name I thought you meant Patrick from the show spongebob 😳

[@jaden8923]

@@levilivesinwisconsin SAME

[@FlorenciaVM1]

Curious fact: here in Argentina we call the guinea pigs "conejillo de India", which means "little rabbit from India". AND we also use this expression with someone who's being used to test something.

[@brauljo]

The standard Castilian form is "conejillo de Indias", "Indias" meaning "Indies". The broadest concept of "the West Indies" encompasses all of America.

[@Gia1911Logous]

Guyana: **visible confusion**

[@alecity4877]

Guayana: "I bet you're feeling dumb right now"

[@Gia1911Logous]

@@alecity4877 guayana?

[@alecity4877]

@@Gia1911Logous Guayana means the same as Guyana, land of the water, it's just a different language, Guayana is how the region of the states of Amazonas, Bolivar and Delta Amacuro in Venezuela, is called when grouped together.

[@greyjay9492]

French Guiana: oh, dans quoi je me suis mis maintenant?

[@Gia1911Logous]

@@greyjay9492 sorry i don't speak surrender language

[@CB0408]

"We have no more places called Guinea" Patriotic guinean amateur astronomer looking for new astronomical objects in order to name them after Guinea: hold my typical guinean alcoholic beverage

[@alecity4877]

I think there's an exoplanet unofficially called after guinea. I repeat, unofficially.

[@retf8977]

I have one for you, palm *Wine is commonly used in Guinea as an alcoholic beverage in non-Muslim areas I am very Srry guys, it is Palm wine, not palm oil, idek what I was thinking when I typed oil lmao

[@sion8]

@@retf8977 What? Oil as a beverage?!

[@CB0408]

@@retf8977 quoi? De l'huile comme de boisson?

[@AshrafAnam]

@@retf8977 Who gets drunk with palm oil??

[@gevensil]

Hello I am Portuguese, I am precisely doing work on this topic. In fact, during the period known as Portuguese discoveries, at an early stage of exploration in Africa the region called "Guinea" referred to the entire broad region of Cape Bojador until Angola. This is why countries in this region have guinea in their names. Book used: Hermano Saraiva, José, Historia Concisa de Portugal, Publicações Europa-América

[@martinokhalil4900]

Omg it makes sense now ! In Egypt the call the Egyptian pound guineh

[@retf8977]

Oh shit... I am from Egypt too and I didn't realise that until now... thx for pointing out

[@whoever3441]

Yea we call it that cause when we were under British control we used the guinea coin a lot

[@aliismail4785]

in somalia the pound is also called guinea and our money is shillings

[@LunizIsGlacey]

Paolo G Uh, Aussies don't use shillings, pounds or guineas, mate.

[@helbatoory]

@@LunizIsGlacey We used to use them here in Australia decades ago

[@johnkilmartin5101]

The coin is actually 21 shillings or £1.05 or 252 pence.

[@alangknowles]

I think that was to allow for subsequent debasement of the coinage. It originally was 20 shillings. They still use guineas at some equine auctions.

[@HollywoodF1]

You would pay for items at auction in guineas, and the auction house would pay the seller in pounds sterling. The difference went to the auction house. It's money with the math built in.

[@temptemp563]

One Guinea = one pound (£) and one shilling = 21 shillings = £1 plus 5%. So if I lend you a quid (£) at 5% then you owe me a guinea. A guinea is a reckoner for "a pound plus a bit", ie "a good pound"; it provides the middle-(wo)man with a bit s/he can skim off - like commission, interest or graft. Interesting.

[@sublicense18a13]

@@alangknowles The guinea coin was worth 21 shillings because the gold used was so pure it was considered that much more valuable compared to an ordinary pound sterling gold coin. As the gold quality used gradually receded the guinea coin was discontinued. As a sales tactic guineas were kept for prices to imply the items were greater in value than similar items. Also in horse sales guineas were the traditional coin used when selling bloodstock and in horse racing prize money e.g. "The 2000 Guineas" .

[@alangknowles]

@@sublicense18a13 I thought the price paid in guineas meant that the auctioneer kept the 5% as commission and the price given to the seller was the same number in pounds.

[@oggaming2988]

Why is a pound (£) and a pound (lb) called the same thing?

[@Speederzzz]

A pound used to be worth a pound of a certain precious metal.

[@Xaiff]

It's "Pound"-sterling 😂😂

[@hiddenagenda4910]

@Petta Oni lb is short for libra, a Latin word. It is where we get the pound Sterling symbol

[@hiddenagenda4910]

@Venky Wank actually it's just Latin for pound which back then was 12 oz. (0.34 kg). I believe the connection between that word and liberty/freedom is coincidental (I forgot the real word you're supposed to use here -any foreign language teacher should know it though)

[@trevorwoodley3897]

@Petta Oni Libra means scale in Latin, hence "LB/lb".

[@gamoviestudios1388]

"...called it The Gold Coast" Australians: _IMPOSIBLE._

[@deet0109mapping]

“What should we call our country slightly north of the equator?” *E Q U A T O R I A L G U I N E A*

[@trevorwoodley3897]

Surely there is some native word of endearment or common geographical/national sentiment, principle or aspiration that can be used. Come on now. I know my African peeps can do this.

[@sion8]

Although the continental part of Equatorial Guinea is just north of the equator, the country has islands south of the equator (I mean the capital is on an island north of the mainland as well). So the full country straddles the equator.

[@NickRoman]

@@trevorwoodley3897 , I think the most common reason for doing anything is: because that's pretty much how it has been done up to now.

[@AshrafAnam]

@@trevorwoodley3897 The country, just like so many post-colonial countries in the world, was created by the White Man. Native words are for lands discovered and marked by the native people, not countries whose borders were drawn by foreign colonialists. A Middle Eastern example can be Syria. The native Arabic name for the whole region including modern-day countries of Lebanon and Palestine (and parts of Jordan) was "ash-Sham." Thus the borders of Syria drawn by the French colonialists does not exactly correspond with a region in Arabic geography. Hence Syrians adopted the name "Suriyya" for their country from the French.

[@trevorwoodley3897]

@@AshrafAnam, I understand all of this, which is why I think Guineans need to cast off that horrible, clunky colonizer name.

[@Gia1911Logous]

0:24 **sad Welsh noises**

[@vlogdemon]

*confused Manx noises*

[@heres.someart]

I didn't even realize that till u said that Edit: spelling

[@capncake8837]

Egg Shoot, didn’t even notice. But, Wales is officially part of England, so, tough luck, Welshy.

[@vlogdemon]

Cap'n Cake Actually Wales was once part of the kingdom of England, but now has a devolved parliament. Admittedly it’s not at autonomous as Scotland, but it’s its own thing these days

[@willjenkins2569]

@@capncake8837 nah mate

[@Child_of_Amun]

The word Guinea was believed to have been a Portuguese mispronunciation of Djenné an ancient city in Mali, West Africa

[@kaleahcollins4567]

Exactly

[@schma9lo189]

Agnaou and gnawi are words of berber origins, used in morocco to talk about people from west africa. No relations with Djenné which they could have pronounciated easily.

[@ode6105]

Djenn is Spirit Man, or Jinn.

[@ode6105]

Djenne (Guinea) means SPIRIT WOMAN in the Soso language, spoken in Guinea.

[@Whiskypapa]

“So why is the island called new guinea?” Please dont... “When a spanish explorer...” Stop... “They looked similar to the african guinea people” God dammit.... “And papua means frizzy because they had frizzy hair” OH FOR FUCKS SAKE!

[@Babyshoes777]

WhiskyPapa the accuracy 😂😂, this should have waaay more likes

[@bananaforscale1283]

So what? This isn't racist. It wasn't meant to be insulting just stating facts.

[@allensuating3644]

Here in the Philippines I live in the Island called Negros. And you know why its called that way

[@ethanschoales6563]

If anyone was racist it was the explorers not Patrick

[@m1r2ms4]

There is a Municipality in Nicaragua's Southeast (South Atlantic/Caribbean Autonomous Region) named Nueva Guinea, (nueva means new in Spanish) with its municipal seat, the city, also named like that. The reason it got that name is because of the Guineo tree that grew there. Guineo is like a kind of plantain in Nicaragua (in other parts of Latin America Guineo is the word used for banana), so when the first settlers arrived they noticed the Guineo tree (called simply a Guinea). Suposedly Guineas don't usually grow in that region of the country so it was a curiousity for them to see one lonely guinea, the settlers used to extract resources like wood and rubber from the region and when they took a break they would gather next to the guinea, so people started saying: "let's meet at La Guinea", so that's why the name stayed. It's called "New" Guinea because the original settlement is not where the current city is located. The word Guineo derives from the origin of the bananas and its varieties coming all from western Africa.

[@scronx]

Wow, what a thorough and FUN tour -- thank you! And no, you didn't say the name too much -- the subject demands it. Love your subject -- gonna check out your other shows pronto. Have always LOVED names of all kinds -- I collect 'em for fun pen names and online handles etc.

[@anandashankarmazumdar]

The British guinea was 21 shillings (1 pound plus 1 shilling), not 20 shillings, which was just 1 pound.

[@nmichaels1]

This might be my favorite video so far. It’s interesting, like all Name Explain videos, but I really enjoyed seeing how it was linked to other names and terms like Turkey or a Guinea pig in an experiment. Good work!

[@taliasilvey7063]

I thought either you or I was having a stroke when you kept trying to say "Turkish merchant's" 😂

[@gamf5996]

Fun fact in spanish Guinea pigs are called conejillo de Indias or little rabbit from the indies and they were farmed for meat by the incas. It is still eaten in the Andes region of ecuador and in peru (beware if you google it)

[@TheInglip]

I was under the impression this was a video ready for publication, which would make me not a guinea pig.

[@duanehastrich1460]

I remember your 4th video well. Congratulations on all of your progress.

[@msherif428]

The Egyptian Pound is called guinea in Egypt. We also have a shilling which equals 5 piasters. An Egyptian Guinea equals 100 piasters.

[@retf8977]

Well, we pronounce it Geneh, But the coastal people usually still pronounce it Guinea

[@chrisinnes2128]

That is because it was at one stage worth almost the same value as a British Guinea

[@SuperManning11]

I grew up near Guinea, Virginia. Strange place, strange people-they don’t take kindly to strangers, so they remain very isolated and have been dealing with the consequences of a diminished gene pool. At least that’s what I was told as a kid-it’s possible they are more integrated today. I became fascinated by them after being in line behind a man and his wife at the 7-11 and listening to how they spoke. I could tell it was English, but it was very difficult to understand, especially as a child. I wanted to go into the town of Guinea to meet people and have them teach me how to speak like that-my parents told me in no uncertain terms that that was not going to happen.

[@iakovzhitomirskiy1569]

0:53 Nigeria and Niger and the Niger river : hold my hunger

[@YouGotOptions2]

The poruguese had been seeing people with Black skin for ATLEAST 500yrs before they sailed to the west coast if Africa. Since Spain and Portugal was called Al Andalus by the Moors.

[@kitchensink9910]

Never knew there was so much Guineas in the world.

[@AshrafAnam]

Need to learn geography more.

[@jezalb2710]

There were so many Guineas. Not much Guineas

[@matchampagne]

I was watching back then with the 4th episode on Guinea! Cheers! 🍻

[@robertrdlc5278]

Guinea pigs in the Quechua language are called cuy, it's an onomatopeia.

[@NickRoman]

Knowing what sound guinea pigs make, that's hilarious.

[@lucas9269]

When I was a kid I was able to imitate the sound they make, and when I did they would squeal back

[@mariovf456]

And in spanish it's called cuyo or conejillo de indias

[@DexterBachman]

In the Quechua language they seem to be called Quwi. Cuy is south american Spanish. qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quwi

[@kacperkacper7940]

In Polish, guinea pigs are called "świnki morskie", which means "piggies from the sea". So, if the Polish name for them is to be believed than the guinea men explanation seems the most likely:)

[@francescologreco8584]

Makes a video about Guinea. Italians have left the chat.

[@kaleahcollins4567]

Now they know the truth sicilains are black descended

[@robgoodsight6216]

Haahahhahahahhha

[@robgoodsight6216]

@@kaleahcollins4567 Sicily 's history is a very complicated one. But condensed yes it is! Do not forget the Normans.

[@001islandprincess]

Kaleah Collins No West African DNA. You mean North African, the Berbers and West Asian as part of their ancestral makeup; however, Sicilians are basically Mediterranean people and are genetically similar to the people from Malta and Cyprus...

[@hisexcellencypresidentofre4118]

Why?

[@Dartitis-26]

Guinea pigs are probably the pet with the most different namings around the languages. In German, it's called "Meerschweinchen" which literally means "sea piggy", "Schweinchen" being a diminutive of "Schwein" which is "pig". It's called this way because they somewhat appear to be like little piglets and making noises like them, while they came to Europe by sea. However, we (luckily) don't use the term Guinea pig to refer to someone to test with. That's "Versuchskaninchen" in German, literally "experimental bunny". Pretty straight forward, isn't it?

[@geraldwalsh6489]

Wrong....a Guinea was worth 21shillings not 20shillings. We had Guineas in Ireland also. This is where the name Guinness came from!

[@blueconversechucks]

Okay that one is a shocker! Would not have guessed that. Send this video needs an addition.

[@vytah]

The worth of a guinea in 1663 was initially one pound, but it fluctuated with the price of gold (up to as much as 30 shillings) and was fixed to 21s in 1717.

[@antonyslack1]

Been here since before episode 4. Love your vids this one in particular was great always wondered about the prefix. Have an awesome day.

[@noah6849]

Also, a guinea pig could refer to an Italian cop.

[@MatthewDoel32]

It shouldn't, though.

[@krashd]

That's a Fredo pig.

[@Cl4rendon]

Italians in the USA were also called Guineas back in time around beginning 20th century. It`s well documented in Mario Puzo`s book " The Godfather"

[@ryanking2155]

Everyone who disliked this video was Welsh

[@etienne7930]

Why??

[@10thDoctorWhoovez]

@@etienne7930 0:25

[@oscarword775]

Commenting to support Name Explain.

[@bulldowozer5858]

Portuguese be like: *I'm going to name you the N-Word*

[@Nparalelo]

So my guinea pig is a niggah hamster. Cool!

[@krashd]

The Portuguese used the G-word, they explained that in the video. The Spanish used the N-word.

[@Superlegalyutube]

Rob Fraser lol “G-word”. It’s not offensive at all, so drop that. Say Guinea. Actually, modern portuguese doesn’t use this word in this meaning anymore. It would be anachronism to use it that way or to be offended by it.

[@tyronechillifoot5573]

@@JoseFernandes-js7ep they actually named after a River

[@desanipt]

It's funny because the English "N-word" developed from Portuguese or Spanish "negro" which means black. In modern day Portuguese "negro" is the neutral way of referring to a black person. Meanwhile another word also meaning black, "preto", is the offensive way of calling a black person. But that's not the one that developed to become "unsayable" in English. This has always got me thinking...

[@briansmith9439]

Guinea was used as a pejorative word for an Italian in the Mid-Atlantic States (at least) - along with dago and wop (which meant 'without papers' and thus was applicable only to immigrant Italians, the 'papers' being naturalization papers, not for people born in the US to Italian parents). Where did that use of guinea originate?

[@001islandprincess]

Brian Smith My mother’s Sicilian Great grandfather spoke of how he was called a Wop.

[@caesar7734]

0:25 So you are from the UK and you think that Wales is part of England?

[@joevenespineli6389]

Not a kingdom, just sayin And he is English, I think

[@PatchCornAdams723]

Brad Smith No it isn't. Wales is Wales. England is England.

[@PatchCornAdams723]

Brad Smith The act of putting Wales under English law happened in 1542, but the Welsh are still their own ethnicity (As are English), and the country of Wales is a recognized principality. They also speak a different language. You tell a Welsh man that he's English, and you'd soon change your mind.

[@guynorth3277]

This was really a cool video, this is something I actually wondered about through the years, so thanks!

[@mauriceworthy7697]

Guinea was also a pejorative word for Africans during the global slave trade.. The N- word replaces the word Guinea during Colonial times in America..

[@AshrafAnam]

Mom: What would you like for dinner sweetie? White guy: A roasted guinea... Black friend: You pathetic racist! How dare you? White guy: I meant the bird, idiot!

[@bridgetdavis9752]

Loving this channel. Thanks!

[@zyadabdelaziz4788]

The Egyptian currency, the Egyptian pound, is called "guinea" in Arabic

[@onuonu7336]

Wow. I had that question few days ago but forgot to look it up. But now I can watch this video. What a service :)

[@ByddinRhyddidCymru]

Why was Wales in your map of England?

[@MrCubFan415]

King In Prussia False. England and Wales are two of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom (the other two being Scotland and Northern Ireland).

[@lachlanbrowse6939]

For a large part of its history, Wales was owned by England - and was probably during the time that New England was settled

[@Seekay37]

@@MrCubFan415 Northern Ireland isn't technically a country like England or Scotland, it's more like a province of the UK.

[@toysintheattic2664]

King In Prussia wrong

[@donwald3436]

Meimu Skooks It won’t be for much longer.

[@aquari_2344]

been watching since new guinea. just wanna say great channel ^-^

[@mansamusa1743]

0:27 >including Wales and Cornwall as part of England You'll be lucky if you only get a few burglaries at that point bro

[@Xaiff]

Whoa, is the situation there THAT bad?

stupid nationalism

[@philbradshaw7650]

He had Ireland as being Britain aswell 🤣 The lads Geography is all sorts of arseways.

[@EleetCanoe]

The Name Explain-drawn guinea pig is very cute

[@TheogRahoomie]

So Papua New Guinea translates to something along the lines of “frizzled new black people”

[@AshrafAnam]

lol

[@krashd]

I don't want to be 'that guy' but I thought frizzled hair was part and parcel of being black, I've always been under the impression that it's a pain in the arse to straighten so you either keep it short, grow an afro or (if you're a woman) sacrifice 2,000,000 hours over your life time styling it.

[@reneegaudet9843]

As a Nova Scotian I feel it my duty to find out! I will see what I can dig up.

[@alicialouv2218]

What do you do for work? Im a guinea pig for NameExplain, not a high paying job, but damn is it rewarding

[@TheCimbrianBull]

So much information crammed into a single video. 👍

[@FeyTheBin]

I was raised in Western New Guinea. Neat place, though often tarnished by foreign companies exploiting the resources, the occasional tribal wars, and separatist uprising. At least it has Raja Ampat.

[@arko09]

That was enlightening! Subscribed.

[@cramble]

0:24 he highlighted england wrong, he included Wales

[@Kawsaki]

Thank you for clearing up the whole Guinea thing And the whole Turkey thing

[@keithwortelhock6078]

Guineas were worth 21 shillings. A sovereign was 20 shillings. It all started because the Guinea was so pure it was woth more.

[@manustorm5617]

guinea pig in spanish is called "conejillo de indias", although that term normally is excluded to only the metaforical guinea pig, for the real one we have "cobaya"

[@anonymousperson2486]

“Gold Coast” Me:What like the one in Queensland

[@The_Chad_]

Thanks for making this video. I have always been confused about all the guineas.

[@td9250]

Since when does England contain Wales!

[@5roundsrapid263]

I caught that too, at 0:26.

[@bbhxskeppy814]

Gary Dodgson r/foundthebrit

[@ibrahimsylla6922]

The word Guinea comes from Guinea, Conakry from the Susu tribe. the word "Guinea" means woman. when a group of Europeans arrive on the coast, they meet women washing clothes in an estuary. The woman told the man she was a woman. The Europeans misunderstood and thought that the woman was referring to a geographical area; they then used the word "Guinea" to describe the west coast of Africa. ! PIN THIS! I6 41 E 2

[@lucasknox9694]

"Because they were Turkish merchants" "Because they were Turkish merchants" "Because they were Turkish merchants" "Because they were Turkish merchants" "Because they were Turkish merchants" "Because they were Turkish merchants"

[@erdemkara4143]

Amazing content, keep it up!

[@-haclong2366]

04:00 Yet þere are two (2) countries called "Congo" today.

[@robgoodsight6216]

...I like the þ use...

[@bbhxskeppy814]

þiccness

[@__-tu6rx]

In Spanish (or at least in Spain) "Guinea pigs" are called "Conejillos de Indias" which means "Little Bunny of the Indies" may be because we sometimes used the word Indies to refer to South America

[@jameshumphreys9715]

Why did you put Wales in red, when talking about ENGLAND.

[@welp4576]

because wales will kill us all and he needs to warn us

[@krashd]

Because red is the national colour of Wales. It wasn't being lumped in with England, it was just coloured in Welsh red.

[@MrScholl020577]

Great video! In portuguese we call the Guinea pig ''porquinho da Índia'', meaning ''India pig'' and the Guineafowl by ''galinha d'Angola'' meaning ''Angola chicken''. Thought that could be a nice piece of trivia for you ;)

[@mackycabangon8945]

0:25 *welsh triggered*

[@victorcabanelas]

Man, that Sean Connery line really got me, hahaha! In spanish, we call guinea pigs (especially as a "animal to be used to make tests" concept) "conejillo de indias" (literally "little rabbit from the indias"). Great video as always!

[@dixgun]

You said, “1963” for Spanish Guinea independence but it said, “1968” on the map. Always I think of Guinea pigs whenever I hear or read that word, even the coins.

[@awesomelyshorticles]

In the lower left corner, text flashed at that moment, "why did i say 63?" Hes aware of that, he made note of it, but he didnt re-record it.

[@dixgun]

Connor Amlee must’ve missed that. Thanks for pointing it out.

[@NameExplain]

@@dixgun What Conner said.

[@awesomelyshorticles]

@@NameExplain senpai noticed me!

[@Invalid-user13k]

the past sure loved to name the land after the people there

[@fabrizzioantoniodominguezp349]

The original name of the guinea pig, given by the pre-inca cultures that domesticated it, is cuy.

[@jlbeeen]

A lot of people use cavy too, which could be related, or because they live in caves, I'm not sure.

[@greyjay9492]

TLDW: Guinea was an old name for West Africa, The Colonizers thought that the people in Papua looked like the people they had seen in Africa because “aLl BrOwN pEoPlE aRe ThE sAmE” and guinea pigs names are still debated

[@sion8]

I'm pretty sure he explained all that in the video.

[@greyjay9492]

sion8 that’s what TLDW is, it’s a brief summary for people who don’t want to watch the whole vid

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

For a while, I had two extinct in the wild Simandoa cave roaches from Guinea. They were discovered in 2004 in a single cave. Months after it was discovered, that cave was scheduled to be mined for bauxite. Luckily the guy who discovered them brought a handful of them back to the US and they’ve been thriving thanks to roach hobbyists. They’re the only Simandoa species

[@DarwinskiYT]

8:34 “while these things are freakin’ adorable, they’re also compulsive liars” -Patrick 2019

[@BinglesP]

Got confused for a second because I thought this was supposed to be a Spongebob meme And TBF that does sound like something Patrick Star would say

[@popindosin228]

In Russian language, Guinea pig is called "Морская свинка" (translates as Sea Pig)...

[@carultch]

Which word means sea? Morskaya or Sbinka?

[@fancyorangemittens]

I think this may have something to do with capybaras? They look the same, just one is giant and likes to swim.

[@popindosin228]

carultch Morskaya

[@Mayangone]

Initially, a guinea made of a quarter ounce of gold was worth one pound sterling or 20 silver shillings, but the rise in gold price relative to silver caused the value to increase as high as 30 shillings. Sometime in the early 1800, It was officially fixed at twenty-one shillings.

[@epg96]

Please make video about why Berber people want foreigners to call them as Amazigh? Thanks

[@billysanpidro]

This, please.

[@azhadial7396]

​@Swapn Lok Because "Berber" is a name given by the Romans that meant "barbarian" (the word "barbarian" and "berber" are just two different evolution of the same latin word: "barbarus"), although Romans called "barbarians" every non-roman/non-greek people.

[@azhadial7396]

​@Swapn Lok Interestingly, the Berber kingdom of Numidia was an ally of Rome and was later incorporated in the Empire. It is likely that the Romans did not negatively call them "Barbarians" or did not call them by such a name at all (or made a difference between their numidian Berber ally and other Berber tribes). Instead, I think the use of the term became popular to qualify the Amazigh during the Moorish invasion of the Iberian peninsula (Moors were, for the most part, Amazigh people).

[@azhadial7396]

@Swapn Lok During the seventh centuries (600s~700s) with the expansion of the muslim caliphates. But the conversion to Islam was quick as the moorish invasion of Iberia started in the early eighth century. However, the nomadic Amazigh people who lived in the Sahara converted more slowly to Islam due to strong trade relations and influence by the different muslim caliphates. But don't take me on my words, I am not a historian, the knowledge I have is only knowledge from someone who is interested in history.

[@trevorwoodley3897]

@Swapn Lok and "Assassin" apparently comes from the word hashish (marijuana's sister plant); apparently, before going off to murder their enemies the "assassins" got high on hash.

[@MalaLlama]

As always... your videos are amazing! Learned so much with this

[@dingo588]

You could legally head hunt other humans in Papua New Guinea up until the 1960s!! 😳

[@JustAnNPC69]

dingo588 well that’s disturbing

[@dingo588]

MADLAD GHETTIO totally bonkers! I just made a video about it for my Chanel. I had no idea it happened up until so recently

[@danishzuhairi338]

in Malay we call the guinea pig "tikus belanda" which translates to "Dutch mouse" and the turkey "ayam belanda" which translates to "Dutch chicken". Interesting

[@MaxDiscere]

You missed the City of Genoa

[@sohopedeco]

And Geneva lol

[@clemstevenson]

The Guinea was 21 shillings, which made things appear cheaper than they would appear if advertised in pounds (20 shillings).

[@francescologreco8584]

Remember folks a Guinea is an extremely derogatory term offensive towards Italians and Italian Americans.

[@sion8]

Really? I hadn't ever heard of that, just _guido._

[@francescologreco8584]

@@sion8 It has lost popularity in the last 100 years and has fallen to others like dego, wop and some others. It's first recorded use was Guinea N***** to compare Italian-Americans of those to the indigenous peoples of Guinea Africa. Then quickly just becoming Guinea still maintains the meaning.

[@sion8]

@@francescologreco8584 Oh, wow! I mean my college sociology teacher did mention once how Italians were thought of as the same as African-Americans. So, I guess that explains that.

[@fedejr712]

In Spanish (well at least here in Argentina) the Guinea Pigs are called "Conejillos de India" which translate to "Little Rabbits from India" , and the same word is also used for experiments

[@emilphoryew9436]

4:16 The northern neighbors are imposers. Macedonia = Greece.

[@stefanx8344]

Us serbians tried conquering them many tim3s too. You just gotta accept that they are a actual people with their own culture language and territory.

[@jordanwett2427]

Good video. Thanks for making it.

[@WelshTCC1]

Wales is not England.

[@michaelrosenfeld3941]

it will be 🇬🇧

[@RedPandaSebas]

The guinea pig have multiples names that don’t have any relation Cuy (Peru, native name) Guinea pig (English speaking name) Conejillo de indias (Spain name and most Spanish speaking countries) Maybe you could do a video about it

[@typicalx859]

It’s a very strange name but many people were not very smart back then.

[@FarfettilLejl]

I thought about the Macedonia name issue too as you were explaining the situation with the 3 Guineas

[@fredfudge8289]

Italian people have a lot of (quite humorous) derogatory terms for themselves. Wop, dago, paisan, Guido, but the relevant one is that they are also called Guineas. Not gonna lie, I was hoping for an etemological root for that one

[@uekiguy5886]

Yes, I've wondered where that derogatory term came from. C'mon Patrick.

[@angelicagaldos]

Love being a guinea pig to your videos. Still one of my favorite KZbinrs. Guinea pigs are soooooo adorable and they make cute noises.

[@Romandy13]

"It might seem crazy to our modern ears that the place is named after the color of their skin, but this really was a different time." Me: *laughs in Negros Oriental/Occidental* The Spanish named it that way for the same reasons.

[@trevorwoodley3897]

Egypt's original name Kemit (from which the word chemistry comes), means "land of the black people". Speaking of original names, I think the time has come for African countries and other former colonies to reclaim/coin the names THEY gave/want for their respective countries and cast off the colonial ones.I heard South Africa is planning to do just that and I applaud them. As for all the Guineas in West Africa, you go first please. LOL

[@sion8]

@@trevorwoodley3897 The original name of Egypt does not mean “land of the black people”! It means land of the black earth! This is reference to the very fertile land surrounding the Nile specially after flooding.

[@sion8]

¿Negros Oriental/Occidental? Nunca he escuchado eso.

[@trevorwoodley3897]

@@sion8 , and your point is?...That Egypt wan't a land of black people before the Arabs, Greeks and other groups from Asia minor overran it? Basically doing what caucasoid groups seem congenitally unable to restrain themselves from doing? Namely, stealing what belongs to other groups.

[@sion8]

@@trevorwoodley3897 Trevor Woodley Ancient Egyptians are a group of people related to people from the Middle East, WAY before any modern Arabs ever made it to Egypt, besides you can't use our current ideas about race to reflect on those people from the past. _KM.T_ (because we aren't truly sure about the original pronunciation, probably _kumat_ but _kemet_ is the most common today) has its origins not from the people, but the lands around the Nile which turn dark after the yearly flooding, this in contrast to _DŠṚT_ or red land meaning the desert. The Coptic language, the modern descendant of Ancient Egyptian is an Afro-Asiatic language just like the Berber/Amazigh languages and Semitic languages (Arab and Hebrew are such languages), the languages of the Horn of Africa also belong in that group. They share many features and vocabulary not just from borrowings. These languages and the people that speak them aren't directly related to those from the rest of Africa. Tell me this if Ancient Egyptians were black (they weren't just like most North African people), why would they have called their own country the Land of Black People?

[@DotJPGG]

Eyy was waiting for the Ecuador mention when Equatorial guinea was mentioned. Ecuador FTW!