Easily confused

  • pinto: a type of speckled horse
  • pinto bean: a type of speckled bean
  • Pinta: one of the Galápagos islands
  • Pinter: a Nobel-Prize-winning playwright
  • pintu: a slang word for penis
  • pintail: a type of duck

Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

3 comments

  1. pinta: quantifiable measure against which reference is made; "Gimme your finest pinta Guinness, barman".

  2. Used to be used in relation to milk, didn't it: drinka pinta milka day. Ah, happy innocent marketing campaigns from yesteryear...

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