SC - Grapes

[Stefan li Rous]

Yet another account of the origin of "turkey" that I heard, I think, 
from Marion of Edwinstowe (I don't remember where she said she read 
it) was that the merchants who traded from the eastern end of the 
Mediterranean to England were called "Turkey merchants" and that they 
picked up turkeys in Iberia en route to England and sold them in 
England, leading to the association between the bird and Turkey.
David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
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