Undeniable Fact: Dishing it out

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

The Chinese do not call their country "China". Ironically the Western name "China" derives from the porcelain tableware, which in turn comes from the Sanskrit "chi ne", which literally means "eating bone". So much of this important trade commodity came from China, that it soon became the accepted name for the region.

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