Because Melinda and I just had a conversation about this: Alces alces
— AmE: moose; BrE: elk (mostly); DE: Elch; FR: élan or
orignal. The word moose seems to be borrowed from an Algonquian...
On Twitter today, Neil Gaiman posted this: The verb kvell was
unfamiliar to me. The dictionaries revealed that it is,
unsurprisingly, of Yiddish origin, related to the German verb quellen,
which ...