Today’s Mother Goose and Grimm: You say flamenco, I say flamingo. Amazingly, these words turn out to share a history. NOAD2 on flamenco: ORIGIN late 19th cent.: Spanish, ‘like a Gypsy,’ literally ‘Fleming,’ from Middle Dutch Vlaminc . Fleming. Who would have thought? Then on flamingo: ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Spanish flamengo, earlier form … Continue reading flamenco