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Ptarmigan

Scottish Gaelic

“native Gaelic name for the grouse-like bird”

Where it comes from

tarmachan

Fun Fact

The silent 'p' was added in the 17th century (it first appears in print in 1684, in a work by the Scottish naturalist Robert Sibbald), apparently to make the word look more classically Greek, even though the root is actually Gaelic.

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