Gadgets
Discovery's Boy's Toys episode last night dealt with gadgets, and described the very interesting etymology of the word.
It seems that when the Statue of Liberty was finally accepted and had been erected off NYC, vendors were hawking little replicas of the new monument. The French company which fabricated (and I believe erected) the future tourist attraction was the French Gadget(Ga-zhe) company, and that's what everyone called the little souvenirs, only with the now-familiar Americanized mispronunciation, and a word was born.
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