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• View topic - Misnomers

Misnomers

Misnomers

Postby flyingcar on Sun Nov 30, 2008 8:56 pm

In America what we call Buffalo are actualy Bison
Northwestern University is is in northeastern Illinois.
Some Blackborads are Green
Tin foil is almost always made of aluminium
The Hundred Years' War was actualy 116 years long
Egg Rolls don't actualy contain eggs
Head Cheese is actualy a meat product
Apes are commonly referred to as monkeys
Fermat's last theorem from 1637 was not correctly proven until 1995, and was therefore, until then, not a theorem, but a conjecture
A peanut is not a true nut in the botanical sense, but a legume
Percentages in baseball arn't given in the percent form
The titmouse is a bird and not a mouse
White Chocolate is not actualy chocolate
Kansas City, Missouri is larger then Kansas City, Kansas.
Panama hats are made in Ecuador
French fries did not originate in France

==Sports teams that names don't fit there location==
The Utah Jazz kept their nickname after moving from New Orleans
The Memphis Grizzlies formerly played in Vancouver, British Columbia
The Los Angeles Lakers play in a city with very few lakes: they used to be the Minneapolis Lakers
The New York Jets and New York Giants play in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
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