Potassium Cyanide

Potassium cyanide is a poison that everyone knows, but what's truly absurd about this name is that it's neither English nor Chinese characters, but a strangely merged word. 'Cheongsan' (청산, 青酸) literally means blue acid, and 'Gari' (가리) comes from Japanese people who couldn't pronounce potassium, taking the pronunciation from the Chinese characters 加里 (Kari). This term has been used as 'Cheongsan-gari' (청산가리) since a certain period of Japanese colonial rule. Its official name is Potassium Cyanide. When will we reach an era where the remnants of colonial-era language disappear?