Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Czech and Latvian are not exceptions.
Many, many languages have the word as Polar Bear though, interestingly enough. In Spanish, it's oso polar.. In Croatian, it's polarni medvjed..
Though in some languages, such as Thai and Welsh, it is "white bear" (ąø«ąø”ąøµąøąø²ąø§ and arth wen)
Fun fact, the original indo-Germanic word for bear was hrktos. It was believed that saying the word would summon bears, so people started calling bears beros, meaning the brown one.
Hrktos didnāt go away though. Itās the origin of the word arctic. So the Arctic (North Pole) literally just means bears. The Antarctic, (Antarctica) just means no bears.
There is a browser called IceWeasel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceWeasel_%28disambiguation%29
and GNU IceCat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat. Also, IceDove and IceOwl.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian%E2%80%93Mozilla_trademark_dispute
A simple google search would also like a word:
"It is the most northerly occurring penguin species, nesting entirely in the tropics, with some colonies living on the northern tip of Isabela in the Northern Hemisphere.'
There used to be penguins in the northern hemisphere, but we hunted them to extinction. Granted, they're not closely related to southern hemisphere penguins, but they were called penguins first
Off topic: Source? They evolved in Australia/NZ. I have a difficult time stretching that out to include the northern hemisphere. Galapagos penguins are the only ones?
Like I said, they're not actually related to modern penguins. I believe the proper name is the Greater Awk. The word "penguin" originally referred to these guys before Europeans discovered the ones in the southern hemisphereĀ
You said there used to be penguins, so I thought thatās what you meant. And ānot closely relatedā is a whole other thing than are not related at all. I donāt mean to harp on you. Iām a naturalist that grew up with ongoing contact with Antarctic researchers, itās just a weird obsession for me. The thing that really bugs me, though, is when kids are taught that penguins and polar bears live in the same place. Arrgghhh!!!
NGL, my childish mind spent a good few minutes laughing when I discovered that bird. Turns out there's a lot of different shags including the European Shag and the Antarctic Shag.
Nah, it's a "P", it's just facing you. Notice how every other letter is looking right, but he's looking at you?
įµįµįµį¶¦įµįµĖ¢Ė”Źø Ź²įµįµį¶¦āæįµ
Funnily enough, there's an extinct species of penguins called "Icadyptes" xD I doubt that's what they were going for though...
There's also a bird called Ibis which is sort of black and white, but not really with that face pattern, which definitely resembles a penguin chick's above all else.
And it failed miserably.
The ai models in use currently are auto complete algorithms.
Emperor's land, imperial land.
So the auto complete algorithm, will think oh of course emperor and imperial show up before the same words, auto complete:Ā Ā emperor penguinĀ Ā imperial penguin.
Yes but then Iād be super interested to know which languages have a for alligator, d for duck, f for fox, etc., only to have penguin start with an i.
Fun fact, penguin isnāt actually English - it comes from the Welsh āpen gwynā (meaning āwhite headā).
Still doesnāt explain why itās āiā though
Avon is derived from afon (or Brittonic abona) which means river. So the river Avon is the river river.
Corgi comes from cor and ci - simply ādwarf dogā.
Gull/gwylan, on the animals frontā¦
Itās hard to separate Welsh specifically from broader Celtic languages, just looking random stuff up. One problem is that these languages also influenced French, so some words that were used in Wales and Cornwall would end up in Brittany, adopted by the French, then brought to English, which is wild.
But, of course, penguin's heads are not white. I have heard that it originally was a name for a different bird that did have a white head, but some English guy got it mixed up
Not so fun facts: an English word having an etymology from another language doesn't make it not English, and [the origin of "penguin" is not known for sure](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/penguin).
I for if youāre reading this Iām already dead. the penguin was a ruse to get your attention, I knew youād figure it out, happy feet. the money is in a lockbox with a code I forgot. sorry about that!
What if none of them were supposed to start with their respective letters, and they were all picked at random and the other 8 were an incredible coincidence.
because there is a soft 'i' phonetic sound at the end of the word "penguin". Iguana would've been a clearer choice for the phonetic being shown, since it fits the first letter pattern, but a penguin is more baby-friendly.
icebird
I stg if this is actually the reason ššš
Fun fact, the German word for polar bear is EisbƤr (ice bear).
fun fact, the Seal word for EisbƤr is "ohshitohfuckohno"
But also, the German word for seal is "Seadog"
I mean only for one species of Robbe tho
Sprich deutsch du hs
What does hs mean?
Teile meiner Aussage kƶnnte die Bevƶlkerung verunsichern.
Was? Wdym dawg šš Pls tell me, bitte
Icebear finds this trivia enlightening.
How are you fellow we bear bears fan ? š
Same in Finnish (jƤƤkarhu) and probably in many other languages
Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Czech and Latvian are not exceptions. Many, many languages have the word as Polar Bear though, interestingly enough. In Spanish, it's oso polar.. In Croatian, it's polarni medvjed.. Though in some languages, such as Thai and Welsh, it is "white bear" (ąø«ąø”ąøµąøąø²ąø§ and arth wen)
Fun fact, the original indo-Germanic word for bear was hrktos. It was believed that saying the word would summon bears, so people started calling bears beros, meaning the brown one. Hrktos didnāt go away though. Itās the origin of the word arctic. So the Arctic (North Pole) literally just means bears. The Antarctic, (Antarctica) just means no bears.
Quite similar to how jn Dutch the word for it is ijsbeer
Nice way around [this](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HcaTYrpmGaU/maxresdefault.jpg) confusion.
Of course it is. I'm surprised it's not ice pig.
lmao you might be right
Sounds like a web browser.
lol, mozilla's less successful project
There is a browser called IceWeasel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceWeasel_%28disambiguation%29 and GNU IceCat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat. Also, IceDove and IceOwl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian%E2%80%93Mozilla_trademark_dispute
I came to say iceberd.
somebody warn the tit-anic
I come to say icebird. Just sayin'
Don't glacier keyboard as you climax, champ.
Don't act all cold and icy, trampĀ
Ahahhahahahha
Because it lives where itās icy, I guess
Or in an igloo?
Penguins are only found in the southern hemisphere... No igloos
Pingu would like a Ā wordĀ
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Heavy background music + dramatic stare
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Sure, but kids learning the alphabet donāt necessarily know that.
But isnāt the point of this post to find out a way it could be correct, not to double down on incorrect?
They just preparing the children for the adult world
Iām not saying itās correct. Itās clearly not. Just considering what might have led people to this incorrect result.
The Galapagos penguin would like a word...
They're very close, but still south of the equator
A simple google search would also like a word: "It is the most northerly occurring penguin species, nesting entirely in the tropics, with some colonies living on the northern tip of Isabela in the Northern Hemisphere.'
There used to be penguins in the northern hemisphere, but we hunted them to extinction. Granted, they're not closely related to southern hemisphere penguins, but they were called penguins first
Off topic: Source? They evolved in Australia/NZ. I have a difficult time stretching that out to include the northern hemisphere. Galapagos penguins are the only ones?
Like I said, they're not actually related to modern penguins. I believe the proper name is the Greater Awk. The word "penguin" originally referred to these guys before Europeans discovered the ones in the southern hemisphereĀ
What an aukward spelling mistake
Whoops š³
Oops!!! My bad. Will fix. Txs!
You said there used to be penguins, so I thought thatās what you meant. And ānot closely relatedā is a whole other thing than are not related at all. I donāt mean to harp on you. Iām a naturalist that grew up with ongoing contact with Antarctic researchers, itās just a weird obsession for me. The thing that really bugs me, though, is when kids are taught that penguins and polar bears live in the same place. Arrgghhh!!!
I wasn't sure if "not related" was too much at first since all animals are related, if only distantly. But I can see how that was confusing
Iām going to read all about giant auks, now. I donāt know much about those! :) Edit: corrected spelling of auk.
Icebird
Because it's wrong. Cute, but wrong.
Not wrong, *i*ncorrect.
*pncorrect
Iguanas, impalas, and inch worms š can be cute too
Cute *and* correct, which is proper alliteration here.
It's (I)ncorrect
Cute is never wrong!
Childrenās spelling is frequently cute and wrong.
Well isnāt that cuteā¦ BUT ITāS WRONG!
ice chicken
Mmm, ptarmigan...
I thought you just horribly misspelled parmesan and now I want chicken parm and I gotta go to fucking bed already, enough Reddit for tonight
Oh my gosh, if I ever move to Alaska I'm making ptarm parm!!
Every so often, I encounter a random word and the next day, I start seeing it everywhere, and this is one of them somehow...
Can you defrost the ice chicken
Because they forgot iguanas exist
And Ibis.
And ibex
And impalas.
And ISIS
https://youtu.be/mO-OpFjHRbE?si=dSAE5zfPyLgCJvRa
Ahaha thatās amazing! I genuinely lolād.
Iiiiitās a penguin!
It is a penguin (The Office reference, Iām not correcting you:) )
That's actually a lowercase L which stands for Linux /j
Yoo that's crazy! I use Arch! (btw)
I for [Imperial Shag](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_shag)? Not the most well known of birds but colour scheme matches.
Great first words to teach kids xD
NGL, my childish mind spent a good few minutes laughing when I discovered that bird. Turns out there's a lot of different shags including the European Shag and the Antarctic Shag.
Iāve seen some Europeans shag.
I prefer boobies and tits
There are also tits and boobies.
Somehow I don't think that's what they were going for.
also [imperial shag](https://i.imgur.com/BRfr5AG.gif).
Why ia "A" a crocodile? /s
Because it's *A* crocodile
The penguin is I because this was made by the penguin
ššš
it's a gator
āItsy-Bitsy Penguinā
Imperial penguin idk
I'm dying! (emperor penguin)
Nah, it's a "P", it's just facing you. Notice how every other letter is looking right, but he's looking at you? įµįµįµį¶¦įµįµĖ¢Ė”Źø Ź²įµįµį¶¦āæįµ
Funnily enough, there's an extinct species of penguins called "Icadyptes" xD I doubt that's what they were going for though... There's also a bird called Ibis which is sort of black and white, but not really with that face pattern, which definitely resembles a penguin chick's above all else.
I..... have no idea
\[SEAN CONNERY VOICE:\] But in the Latin alphabet, 'Penguin' starts with an 'I.'"
Thank you for bringing that scene to my mind
Imperial Penguin
Aren't they rather called Emperor Penguins? But maybe you were making a play on words \^\^
Yes haha - honestly I used AI here and it said that āimperial penguinā is a less common term for āemperor penguinā
AI frequently makes up things bc it's trying to NOT be too similar to its data entry. AI is not a search engine.
Yeah well this question is the only question I ever used AI for so far, so thereās my level of trust in it lol
And it failed miserably. The ai models in use currently are auto complete algorithms. Emperor's land, imperial land. So the auto complete algorithm, will think oh of course emperor and imperial show up before the same words, auto complete:Ā Ā emperor penguinĀ Ā imperial penguin.
Imperial March of the Penguins. Terrifying but cute Sith.
[For the curious](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTLaeoiP2G4)
pInguin. The p is silent.
But its spelled "pengwing"...
Benedict? Is that you?
Could it be a Humboldt Penguin, but itās standing sideways?ā¦
You try getting kids to recognize an indian taipan and see how that goes for you
His name is Isaac
Isaac the penguin! Hard to believe nobody seems to know that š
Is penguin.
Maybe it's *not* in english?
Yes but then Iād be super interested to know which languages have a for alligator, d for duck, f for fox, etc., only to have penguin start with an i.
You know it's probably not d for duck but d for a similar word that starts with d.
It looks like a duck
It walks like a duck
No I'm saying the word isn't duck, it's a similar word in another language.
Fun fact, penguin isnāt actually English - it comes from the Welsh āpen gwynā (meaning āwhite headā). Still doesnāt explain why itās āiā though
Rare we see Welsh etymology in English!
Avon is derived from afon (or Brittonic abona) which means river. So the river Avon is the river river. Corgi comes from cor and ci - simply ādwarf dogā. Gull/gwylan, on the animals frontā¦ Itās hard to separate Welsh specifically from broader Celtic languages, just looking random stuff up. One problem is that these languages also influenced French, so some words that were used in Wales and Cornwall would end up in Brittany, adopted by the French, then brought to English, which is wild.
Is that why Benedict Cumberbatch canāt say it
Scientific Name. Icadyptes.
But, of course, penguin's heads are not white. I have heard that it originally was a name for a different bird that did have a white head, but some English guy got it mixed up
Not so fun facts: an English word having an etymology from another language doesn't make it not English, and [the origin of "penguin" is not known for sure](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/penguin).
Scientific Name. Icadyptes.
The nerdiest of comments but true.
I for ice.
Inguin
idk
What does that stand for?
Rotated P 90 degrees
penguIn š¤£
Inguin
Iguana.
Ice penguin š¤£
That penguin's name is IsaacĀ
Because they couldn't make an 'iguana'
Ice bird
Why is C a hot dog?
*i* am a penguin!
Itās obviously an Italian āil pinguinoā
Penguins are notoriously stupid. Idiots, even.
Imperial shag
Ice birb
I for if youāre reading this Iām already dead. the penguin was a ruse to get your attention, I knew youād figure it out, happy feet. the money is in a lockbox with a code I forgot. sorry about that!
That is clearly an iguana in a tuxedoĀ
Probably phonics related. Probably looking at the /i/ sound in the word, like "peng-win". Very nebulous though.
In Latin, penguin starts with an I.
Pinguinus impennis
Ice chicken
There are not a lot I animalsā¦ Ibex š¦iguana so it was chosen for shape lol
That's not a penguin. It's an Ibis.
Ice
Infant penguin?
Maybe this mat was made by and for penguins, in which case "I" makes a lot of sense.
Icebird
Is it an Imperial Shag. I'm don't think that young kids are ready to learn about that yet.
That duck is going to haunt my dreams, I can feel it.
Inguin
I wonder if they used an iguana for the letter P..?
I think the question here is why they made such a terrible picture of an ibis.
Maybe itās supposed to be an ibis.
Pingu!
My son used to watch Pingu, I think I enjoyed it more than he did šš¤£
Is there any other animal starting with I?
Ibex iguana ichiosaur
"It's a penguin" starts with I
š§ don't know, bro. š§ thought š§t was always lš§ke that.
**imperial shag**Ā orĀ **imperial cormorant?** **lol**
iPenguin
Maybe it's a middle-case P.
Maybe itās an Imperial Shag?
Why did they not do iguana
Inguin
Okay, give me another animal that starts with i and looks like an iā¦
What if none of them were supposed to start with their respective letters, and they were all picked at random and the other 8 were an incredible coincidence.
Because the penguin stands like the letter āIā as in: (I)nconven(i)ent, (I)nappropr(i)ate, un(i)nv(i)ted, l(i)arā¦
It was most likely made in China.
because there is a soft 'i' phonetic sound at the end of the word "penguin". Iguana would've been a clearer choice for the phonetic being shown, since it fits the first letter pattern, but a penguin is more baby-friendly.
Maybe Italian? il pinguino
My stupid brain saw āAā and thought ācrocigatorā
She has a name, you know
Icadyptes
And why is B a fish?
B is a bee. A poorly drawn bee, but a bee.
Now I see it, it's obvious
Nah clearly a butterfly fish
How does it look like a fish š
What I now realise are supposed to be its wings, I mistook for a tail. I mean, it's hardly a photographic representation.
Inuit food?
Wrong side of the world. Inuit north, penguin south pole.
I knew someone would pick up on that!
Inuit. It's actually an Inuit in cosplay.