New Jersey
40.0000°N -74.5000°W · Q1408
3 English words in this atlas trace back to New Jersey. It sits in United States.
The tea colonists drank when they refused to drink tea.
The leaves were steeped as a patriotic replacement for boycotted East India Company tea during the American Revolution, which is where the name comes from. The brew is tea-colored but contains no caffeine, and the shrub is no relation to the tea plant.
It was the Leeds Devil before newspapers renamed it for the whole state.
The legend attaches to the Leeds family of Burlington County and a supposed thirteenth child born in 1735. A week of reported sightings across the Delaware Valley in January 1909 filled the papers, closed schools and factories, and fixed the name Jersey Devil in print. New Jersey's National Hockey League team took the name in 1982 after a fan vote.
The stereotype and the affectionate answer to it have been running against each other for forty years.
The term is usually pejorative, on the model of Essex girl in Britain, and was reinforced by American television. Tom Waits wrote a song called Jersey Girl in 1980 and Bruce Springsteen's version made it a New Jersey anthem in the other direction. The state itself is named for the Channel Island of Jersey, granted to Sir George Carteret, who had held the island for the crown during the English Civil War.