What about similar oddities in English?
(This question is inspired by this comic by https://www.exocomics.com/193/ (link found by BunScientist@lemmy.zip)) Edit: it's to its in the title. Damn autocorrect.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

That would explain why a pencil, which contains a "lead" (actually a polymer or graphite now) is Bleistift

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