The jersey is named after Jersey, one of the Channel Islands between England and France, which became a big exporter of knitted goods in Elizabethan times. New Jersey in the USA was named after the same little island.
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📍 New England, USA
Moose comes from an Algonquian language of New England, such as Eastern Abenaki mos, and entered English by 1606. In British English the same animal is called an elk, while an American 'elk' is a different deer.
📍 Southern India
Curry comes from kari, a word for spiced sauce in Tamil and neighbouring South Indian languages. Portuguese traders made it caril, and English picked it up from them in the 1590s.
📍 Corinth, Greece
Currant comes from 'raisins of Corinth': tiny dried grapes that medieval England imported from Corinth in southern Greece. In the 1570s the name jumped to the unrelated red and black berries, because they looked like those raisins.
📍 Mountains of northern Greece & Albania
The conker tree of British playgrounds is a Balkan native: wild horse chestnuts survive only in a few mountain forests of northern Greece, Albania and nearby. Everywhere else, it was planted.
📍 England
Cribbage grew out of noddy, an old English card game, and the poet Sir John Suckling is credited with inventing it in the early 1600s. Points are scored by moving pegs along a wooden board full of holes.
📍 Western Russia
In gorodki, "little towns" in Russian, players hurl a heavy bat to knock wooden pins out of a square called the "town". This old Russian game was a favourite of Peter the Great and Leo Tolstoy, yet it only got written rules in 1923.