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Of unknown origin, the word Penguin is often asserted to be Welsh pen "head" + gwyn"white". Seeming to originate in the 1570s to describe the great auk of Newfoundland (now extinct), then shifting to the Antarctic bird in the 1580s.
The book-publishing company by that name is from 1935.
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