• InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    In Spanish the word for pen can also be for a feather.

    Pluma

    I think its more of a Latin America thing as textbooks prefer to use bolígrafo

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      In Spanish the word for pen can also be for a feather.

      In English, too, with the word quill. Though the word now specifically means a pen made from a feather rather than a pen in general, and calling a feather that isn’t being used as a pen a quill is very archaic.