The Big Apple:

An etymological dictionary

Investigating the origins of American words, names, quotations and phrases. Over 41,000 entries.

“Maltesers are a poor man’s Revels”

The candies Milk Duds (introduced in 1928), Maltesers (introduced in the United Kingdom in 1937), Whoppers (introduced in the United States in 1949), Revels (introduced in the United Kingdom in…