Polite Ways to Give Orders

historians are using the term. The prisoners were referred to in headlines as the Pigs prisoners. The literal translation of geographic names is by no means standard procedure. One doesn't talk about the River of January (Rio de Janeiro), Good Airs (Buenos Aires), or Hundred Fires (Cienfuegos). Why then, the Bay of Pigs? Is it not because of the seemingly universal tendency to associate the words for animals of the

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