So, on ONTD_P there's an article about a moose hotline in Connecticut

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and in the comments someone asked something about moose being called "elk" in British English. Oh, boy

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[bagheera_san]

The animal you call moose is correctly called Elch in German - ah, I see that as you keep adding to the post you're finding that out as well.

And yet moose was the first English word I learned for Elch, because our next door neighbour had a sticker on his door that said (for reasons I don't know) "Don't loose the moose"...

[jacksrubberduck]

In defence of the Brits I would like to say that generally here most people would I think be able to identify a moose but would just accuse an elk of being a HUGE deer... or possibly a moose.