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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.
📍 Northeast coast of Brazil
Long before bubble tea, the Tupi people of Brazil's coast called the starch that settles out of squeezed cassava tipi'óka, roughly 'sediment'. Portuguese settlers took up the word after 1500, and cassava itself is native to Brazil.
📍 Genoa, Italy
Jeans goes back to Genoa (Gênes in French): English merchants called a hard-wearing fustian cloth from the Italian port 'Gene fustian', later just 'jean', and were importing it in bulk by the 1500s.
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📍 Haukadalur valley, Iceland
Every geyser is named after Geysir, 'the gusher', one hot spring in Iceland's Haukadalur valley that could hurl boiling water 60 metres high. Geysir is mostly quiet now, but its neighbour Strokkur still erupts every few minutes.
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📍 New York City, USA
The modern crossword began as a “word-cross” by Liverpool-born journalist Arthur Wynne, printed in the New York World on 21 December 1913. Britain's first newspaper crossword followed only in 1924.
📍 Menlo Park, California, USA
The first computer mouse was built in 1964 at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California: a little box rolling on two wheels, dreamed up by Douglas Engelbart and built by Bill English. Its cord looked like a tail, hence the name.
📍 Central North America
Neither from Jerusalem nor an artichoke: it's the tuber of a sunflower native to central North America. 'Jerusalem' is probably a garbling of girasole, Italian for sunflower.