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by jammaloo 2428 days ago
I did a quick dig into the wikipedia article, and it has the roots for the names as follows:

  Both acetaminophen and paracetamol come from a chemical name for the compound: para-acetylaminophenol and para-acetylaminophenol.
No real reason for why one took off in one area, versus the other, just what happened to stick!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol#History