All right; here's one not mentioned so far.

"He waited while his billy boiled." Billy is an anglicization of boille (sp?), French for "boiled." In WW I the Frogs issued cans of boiled meet to the men in the trenches, a kind of new twist on military logistics. The custom spread to other Allied armies along with the corrupted name--"billy beef" or "billy pork," or whatever. Don't hold me to the spelling of boille; the French dictionary is upstairs. :)

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