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In Portugal, while we use the French/English cards, we still called them by the old names (Spanish/Italian).

We call clovers paus (sticks, clubs), pikes are called espadas (swords), diamonds is ouros (gold, coins) and hearts are called copas (cups).

I always found weird how the names had nothing to do with the symbols themselves. Now I understand.

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Huh, now that you mention it, almost the same for Greece except for diamonds being more like “checkered” and for swords-sticks being the other way around for some reason. Also always thought it was weird!

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