If "Sombrero" Means "Hat" in Spanish, What Do You Call a "Sombrero"?
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 Published On Mar 23, 2021

If "sombrero" means "hat" in Spanish, then what do you call those Mexican hats that English and dozens of other languages refer to as a sombrero?
Also, a look at the local names for the Sphinx, the Great Wall, the Kremlin and others, along with some of the silly names that Chinese uses for foreign celebrities.


ADDITIONS/CORRECTIONS:

CORRECTION! It should be La Joconde (with an O as the second letter), for the French name of the Mona Lisa / La Gioconda. Thanks to dklimenok2 for catching that

Note that "Sputnik" meaning "satellite" in Russian is short for "satellite of Earth" (спутник Земли), with sputnik on its own meaning something like "fellow traveller." Officially, the first sputnik was called "Sputnik 1" (Cпутник-1) or in its long form "Artificial Satellite of Earth 1" (Искусственный спутник Земли-1)

Sorry if it's a little rambling at the beginning -- this was the first video I made for this series, and I am still getting used to doing this format.

Photos in this video include the works of:
Marrovi
ehecatzin
Dorotea Kraatz
Jasgleidy Duarte
Rene Asmussen
Ling Tang
Ilnur Kalimullin
Hamza El abaoui
Michael Parulava
Micha Brändli
(Note: For this video and a couple of others, I lost some of the photo credit list -- if you see an image of yours in this video and you're not credited here, please shoot me the link to the photo, and I will add the name. Thanks!)

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