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Struth!

'An ancient, rare and defunct name for the (ostrich), ..was struthiocamel, from Latin struthiocamelus. The Romans took it wrongly from Greek strouthokamelos, literally “sparrow camel” or, more loosely, “camel-bird” (the scientific name of the ostrich to this day is Struthio camelus).'

https://www.worldwidewords.org/ww-str2.html

(Struth is a good client name actually 🤔💡)

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Lez 1y ago

It's called "Strucc" in Hungarian. Now I know where it came from!

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