Rank 27 of 986 words4 places
Denmark
6 English words in this atlas point back to Denmark, spread across 4 places.
| Word | The place | Relationship | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| danishThe pastry is named for the wrong country. | Denmark | From its people | Well attested |
| Copenhagen plankA groin exercise carries a Danish city's name and nobody agrees why. | Copenhagen | From the place | Disputed |
| something is rotten in the state of DenmarkHamlet does not say it; a guard on the battlements does. | Denmark | From the place | Well attested |
| cream HavartiThe cheese is named after a farm outside Copenhagen where a woman reverse-engineered European cheesemaking. | Holte | Indirect | Well attested |
| HavartiThe cheese is named for a farm, seventy years after the woman who developed it worked there. | Holte | From its product | Well attested |
| scandiumMendeleev predicted it as eka-boron and a Swede found it, so it was named for the whole peninsula. | Scandinavia | From the place | Well attested |