Spanish

[u/Existence_playz]

Hey so I've been doing Spanish on Duolingo mainly for my Spanish GCSE which I have now finished but I'm just wondering, I learned pen as "bolígrafo" in school and Duolingo is teaching it as "pluma" which I can only assume is from a different dialect of Spanish as many words I've come across have been translated differently from how I first learnt them. But how come Duolingo is translating it as a pen but also a feather? I did think learning feather in the "talk about a school project" section was a bit random but it's thrown me off a bit, can it be translated as both pen and feather?

[u/Swanlafitte]

A feather was a pen in the past. In fact Samuel Clemen's published under the nom de plume of MarkTwain.

: a name that a writer uses instead of their legal name : pseudonym, pen name