The West Indies aren't India. Is this a cover-up, part of a scheme to distort perceptions? No, it's an artifact of history. Turkeys aren't from Turkey (official

The West Indies aren't India. Is this a cover-up, part of a scheme to distort perceptions? No, it's an artifact of history. Turkeys aren't from Turkey (officially "Türkiye"). But birds from south of the Sahara that resemble turkeys were at one time sold to Western Europe via Turkey. Then the name was transferred to large American birds, inaccurately, because they were you know what I mean, Turkeys. Similarly, Arabic numerals (which undeniably passed through Arabic) were you know what I mean, Arabic numbers instead of people attempting to deliver detailed history lessons mid-conversation. There was no deliberate or even subconscious attempt to impugn any foreign country. Well, no specific attempt. No more than usual. It was just people persistently getting the names of things wrong, like they always will.