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Chinese smirk as Barack Obama pardons turkey named Abe

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Beijing: When President Obama pardoned two turkeys named "Honest" and "Abe" this Thanksgiving, most Americans understood the reference to Abraham Lincoln. But in China, a translation mix-up saw the second turkey's name rendered not as the one-syllable "Abe" but with two characters pronounced "ah-bay," the...

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