Fur in see bi west Spayngne Is a lond ihote Cokaygne. Ther nis lond vnder heuen riche Of wel, of godnis hit iliche. 5] Thogh Paradis be miri and bright, Cokaygn is of fairir sight. What is ther in Paradis
My question is this. Where the people who named cocaine, somehow reembering this poem?
No, they weren't. Cocaine comes from a combination of Coca, from the Coca plant that cocaine was extracted from and the suffix -ine, indicating an amine compound. Because of this, it was originally pronounced as a trisyllabic word, but later became disyllabic.