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Just learnt of a new example today. In Australia a common kind of small tree is called a "wattle". It's flowers are yellow, everyone in Australia knows about them, and the flower is the floral emblem of the country (the yellow and green colours of Australian sports teams is probably from the flower too).
The name "wattle" however comes from "wattle and daub" (wikipedia), a method of construction that uses woven branches filled with some form of clay\cement like material such as mud. "Wattle" trees were ideal for and just used very often for "wattle and daub" building in early colonial times that it's name became "wattle", which generally refers to the woven branches. Now no one knows that construction technique or its name, but the know the tree's name very well.
Otherwise, the save icon being a floppy disc is a clear visual example in technology that's just now-ish passing beyond its redundancy.
It cracks me up that cars have a phone icon based on a handset style from an old home landline phone. I guess enough businesses still use them?
So does my iPhone for that matter.
So does my android, but I somehow find the icon in the car even more entertaining since it reminds me of when the first cars with mobile phones in the 80s actually had handsets!