A slightly tacky catalogue arrived recently. It was advertising (as nowadays most catalogues do) medical devices, hideous duvet covers, droppable ornaments, and ways to clutter up the garden.
On page twenty (yes, thank you, I do quite enjoy looking through this kind of thing) was a solar-powered lantern. It casts, the text under the illustration informs us, a Turkish-inspired shadow.
https://www.scottsofstow.co.uk/solar-powered-adana-lantern/The claim is the lantern will provide some Mediterranean mood. And it might. It might even give your garden A Taste of the Orient.
But I doubt, as the text claims, that even if you licked the thing it'd give you A Taste of Turkey.
Still, it could be worse.
It could have claimed to give you A Taste of Greece.
Word To Use Today: Turkey. The bird is named after the country because guinea fowl (then called turkey cocks) used to be sent through Turkey on their way to Europe. The American bird turkey, being also edible, was later given the same name.
The country of Turkey is the land of the Turks. Turk has been used to describe various different people from various places in the world (rather as has the word Indian) but the country, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, officially claimed the name in 1923.
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