This is the correct answer. Listen to any conversation in any language and it inevitably pops up. Weird thing is that it’s only about 200 years old and seeming

This is the correct answer. Listen to any conversation in any language and it inevitably pops up. Weird thing is that it’s only about 200 years old and seemingly American in origin. I would have guessed that a Sanskrit word like khanda aka “candy” or something like “chai“ would have spread faster and longer ago.