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            For example in OP you think they’re going to look up origin of bear cave but instead they did for “Romania”. That’s the switcheroo.

            On reddit whenever that would happen someone would link to the previous time, leading to a long list where you could go back accross many posts.

            So next time a similar thing happens someone could link here and so on.

            If that makes any sense.

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              So each switcheroo just leads to a previous switcheroo and that’s the thing?

              Cool, thanks.

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    Bear comes from the Proto-Indo European word for brown. Proto Germanic tribes thought that using the animal’s real name (probably Arkto) would cause it to appear, hence they used the euphemism “The Brown One”. In other European languages they also use taboo naming for bear. For example in Russian, a bear is called Medved (Honey Eater) or in Old Irish it’s mathgamain (Good Calf)

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    Seems like Bearnia would have been a better name. I’ve seen bears there, but I’ve never seen Romans.

    Plus, I suspect the bears were there first.