What new words have you learned recently?

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[I] Did the British call rain gear boots galoshes before Arthur Wellesley? Galoshes is such a weird word for Americans to have landed on, that I suspect it's a case of 'we're using the original British term, you just changed how you did things after we splintered away' situation.

Since galoche is French for a type of shoe, I suspect you are on to something here.