Word origin game

A Miniscule F1 team with a bunch of Hardy chaps working for it. Their name is an amalgamation of these two recognizable characteristics.

America
 
Because the british where some of the first settlers, they needed hammers to build their cities. Now, some of them were from Birmingham so they said 'ammer or Amer, so they named the country America.

Hallowed
 
Concocted by Christians, who used to call places where their people got married Hall's 'o Wed. This got shortened into Hallowed, later associated to all things Holy.

Station
 
During the Train Engineers Get F*cked Up period in the mid 1900s, train drivers thought they could fly to the moon, and wouldn't stop on the way to pick up passengers and cargo. Henceforth a decree was ordered saying "stay or shunned" at various stopping points. This was then contracted to become "station".

Wallaby
 
Some of the first convicts exported to Australia did the first thing that any sensible person would do upon arrival, got piss drunk. They found this creature and found that it was huddled against walls when they caught one and put it inside, so the called it the wall baby, or wallaby.

Liquid
 
Early British settlers made dwellings near rivers and lakes. They discovered a strange watery substance that seemed to glow an eerie green color. As the inhabitants all grouped together to analyze this substance, a person shouted

"If you lick it, I'll give you a quid"... "Lick for a quid".

From then on it was called the lickquid or liquid.

Peppermint
 
Peppermint is a corruption of "Papamint", in reference to the papacy. Legend has it that Pope Clement IV obtained multiple uses for the herb, not all of which are for culinary purposes. As a result, all Roman Catholic countries officially named the herb after his honour.

Media
 
Means of extracting money from Max Mosley and other important people who like S&M via news stories which are 95% invented, based on a few images.


Chocolate
 
In the deep part of South America, cacao pods were used as pretend ammunition in a play on warfare. They would chuck large cacao pods around at each other, and if you caught it, you'd get to throw it back at the person and try to hit them. If you missed, you would have to sit out for a period of time before being allowed back in. The winners would be the team that had the most players left after a certain period of time, or if they forced all the players on the other side to sit out. This game was passed on to the western world where the large pod was called the chuck. A missed throw cracked the giant nut open revealing tiny cacao beans, that were then called chucklets. This word slowly evolved to become "chocolate".

Harpoon
 
Back in medieval times, the harp was one of the most popular musical instruments. Sony decided to make a minaturized version, so people could carry it with them on long travels. It was dubbed the "walkharp", "harpman" or "harpoon". The minaturization process ruined the quality of the sound, so instead of becoming a popular instrument,
it became a weapon used for killing whales with its sound.

anthrax
 
This poison, developed in the lab was later found to occur naturally in the thorax of ants. Hence it was nicknamed "anthorax" or "anthrax".

Supercar
 
I was going to do it again, but I can't think of an origin :eek:

New word: iPod
 
A popular device which they combined an i with a peapod to form ipod

New Word: Transporation
 
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The word transportation comes from the age of pirates. This was back in the day when sea travel was the coolest way to get around. Whenever anyone wanted to get from one point to another, they invariable said, "my good man, ready the ship immediately!" But this itself isn't the origin of the word. Pirates were known for boarding ships heading out from port (and contrary to popular belief, they only wanted to give the crews of those ships delicous candy). Since their preferred point of interception was near ports, and they were lacking a word for boarding a ship to offer candy to the men onboard, they eventually called this activity 'portation.' Pirates travelled from port to port, portating merchant vessels. It is believed that the adoption of the word into transportation came after the decline of the pirates, from the idea that when on travels between ports for portation, they are transporting their candy. And over time transportation has become used for more and more things, and today it's used on any type of vehicle, with any type of cargo travelling to anywhere.

new word: dinette set
 
Before plates were invented, food was eaten on actual people. The lowest of the low, poorest of all people who had no money and weren't producing goods were eaten off of during elegant royal banquets. The people most likely to be eaten off of were women, as they were seen to be more clean in general. The name for such a woman comes from the mixture of the english word dinner and the french word for female poor person that never got a chance in life so is now being used as a plate: ette. These were merged to form dinette, and a group of dinette women was called a dinette set.

Buffalo Wings.
 
I'll do my own

The ancient taurusdactyl was a legendary creature, with the strength of an ox and wings like an eagle. It could fly for hundreds of miles but only at a very low altitude. They were often seen in packs and as a result they were wiped out en masse by groups forever looking for a new method of flying. The wings proved to be worthless and man had yet to figure out how to fly. The leftover taurus meat was then cooked and eaten along with the wings as a side dish. This delicacy was dwindling after the wipeout of all taurusdactyls and so hunters and farmers would disguise chicken meat as buffalo meat by using the same cuts and flavorings. They were thus called Buffalo Wings.

Telephone
 
A type of device which allows you to teleport to a phone line somewhere which leaves you with nothing to do but to just teleport somewhere :p

Video
 
Motion picture developed by Video Takajima of Japan during the epoch of the samurai.

Hologram
 
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