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Another problem word is pepperoni."+ To Americans, it's a salami-like sausage, usually found on pizza. In Italy, +peperoni are bell peppers/capsicums. "Pepperoni" for sausage seems to have been coined in the US. A 1914 article says the name comes from the "peperoni" (pepper) used in making it.

I found several references that the first written use of "pepperoni" as a sausage was 1919, but no citation. I found it in a 1907 magazine article about sausage.

German salami, knackwurst, Milano salami, D'Arles, Swedish, Lom- bardi, Holsteiner, pepperoni, laudjaeger, lackshinken, metwurst, plockwurst, mor- tadella, soprassata Napolitani, saucisson de Lyon, koppa, capacola, in favor with existing customers of delicatessen stores

Another problem word is pepperoni." To Americans, it's a salami-like sausage, usually found on pizza. In Italy, peperoni are bell peppers/capsicums.

And in German German (not Swiss German...), Peperoni refers to hot (red or green) chillies, peperoncini in Italian.

I had an Australian friend laugh at the menu of a German pizza restaurant: "Look, those sausage loving Germans even put Salami on their vegetarian pizzas..."