List of misnomers
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The following is a list of notable list of misnomers. A misnomer is a name that is incorrectly or unsuitably applied. Misnomers often arise because something was named long before its correct nature was known, or because an earlier form of something has been replaced by a later form to which the name no longer suitably applies. Many incorrect names are misnomers, but occasionally an incorrect name are not considered as a misnomer.
List of notable misnomers[edit]
- The "lead" in pencils is made of graphite and clay, not lead; graphite was originally believed to be lead ore, but this is now known not to be the case. The graphite and clay mix is known as plumbago, meaning "lead ore" in Latin.
- Blackboards can be black, green, red, blue, or brown.
- Sticks of chalk are no longer made of chalk, but of gypsum.
- Tin foil is almost always made of aluminium, whereas "tin cans" made for the storage of food products are made from steel with a thin tin plating. In both cases, tin was the original metal.
- Telephone numbers are usually referred to as being "dialed" although rotary phones are now rare.
- In golf, the clubs commonly referred to as woods are usually made of metal. The club heads for "woods" were formerly made predominantly of wood.
- Buckwheat is not a cereal. Despite it has the wheat, buckwheat is not closely related to wheat.
- Coat of arms is a heraldical object, and there is no relation between the human arm and coat.
- Red panda, although it has the name panda, is not related to giant pandas.
- Chinese checkers originate from Germany, not China.
- Bika ambon is not made from the city of Ambon, and is made in Medan.
- French horns originate from Germany, not France.
- Head cheese is a meat product.
- A horned toad is a lizard.
- A velvet ant is a wasp.
- White Chocolate does not made from cacao beans, instead it is made from cocoa butter, sugar, milk solids, lecithin, and flavorings.
- A titmouse is a bird.
- Buffalo wings did not actually made from buffaloes, and is made from chicken.
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