Perhaps, it is because we love the comic strip "Sherman's Lagoon" (see last entry), which features not only the exploits of Hawthrone the Hermit Crab, but also Fillmore the Sea Turtle or because we like the folk/rock band Trampled by Turtles, from Minnesota, that will perform at Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio, once they have finished touring the United Kingdom and Ireland, but we thought we'd look up the word for turtles in eight different languages.
The other four will be posted on our sister blog "Politics, Culture and Other Wastes of Times:"
http://www.politicscultureandotherwastesoftime.blogspot.com
Here we go:
1) Kaplumbaga- Turkish pronounced Kap-loom-baah
2) Schildpad- Dutch
3) Zelva-Czech
4) Tartaruga- Italian
http://www.slagoon.com
http://www.trampledbyturrtles.com
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