As J notes, there are usually a lot of mistakes -- or 'errors' as J prefers -- in language. One example, the turkey, felt to be from Turkey (it isn't).
This from today's World Wide Words, M. Quinion refers to pub names:
"Swan
With Two Nicks, for example in Worcester, at Little Bollington in
Cheshire, and at Sharnbrook in Bedfordshire. Two nicks put on a
swan's bill at the time of swan-upping signified that it was owned
by the Worshipful Company of Vintners, hence the connection with
pubs. The link has often puzzled people. Down the centuries several
pubs changed their names to Swan With Two Necks."
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which belongs more in Grice's "Vacuous Descriptions".
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