Pyjamas - from Arabic for a loose-fitting pair of pants.
Gazebo - a phony combination of "Gaze" in English and "ebo" (I do) in Latin.
Phillips 66 - Phillips is the family name of the oil magnate but he died never telling anyone the significance of 66.
Harry S. Truman and Ulysses S. Grant both became a US President, both had the same middle initial, and it stood for the same thing..."S."
Dandelion comes from the French phrase for "Lion's tooth" and refers to the individual yellow florets' appearance when plucked from the flower head.
The Real McCoy - named after the African American inventor of the automatic oiler for locomotives. Don't buy an imitation, buy the real McCoy.
Moxie - Got Moxie? Sure you do! An advertising campaign so successful it outlived the carbonated beverage.
Arm and Hammer Baking Soda - While one of its largest shareholders was indeed Armand Hammer, that's purely a coincidence.
Kodak - Means nothing. George Eastman's mother told him that all successful businesses had a name that radiated sincerity and strength. Eastman thought the letter K did that and he created a word that began and ended in K.
Edsel - Henry Ford did his son Edsel the dubious honour of naming the world's worst car after him.
Fred Sanford - the infamous, opinionated junk dealer of Sanford and Son, was named after John Elroy Sanford's (Redd Foxx) real life brother.
Many nations in Europe end in "ia" such as "Austria" and it means "Land of the" so Land of the Italics is Italia and land of the East (Ost) is Austria. However in Arabic speaking countries the names end in "istan" which also means "Land of the". So the Cossaks live in ... you guessed it ... Kazakhistan, while the Afghans live in Afghanistan.
