[lbo-talk] toponyms

Ian Murray seamus2001 at attbi.com
Wed Jun 11 22:53:22 PDT 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelley" <the-squeeze at pulpculture.org>


> lil help?
>
> working on a list of toponyms which originate as proper place names but
> then come to have a more generalized meaning. examples would include:
>
> Babel
> Mecca
> hell
> seltzer
> Siberia
> Boeotian
> champagne
> solecism
> Chautauqua
> Waterloo
> Pax Romana
> Watergate
> Gibraltar
> Timbuktu
> El Dorado
>
>
> any other good ones?

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Peoria

Ian



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