[lbo-talk] toponyms

Gar Lipow lipowg at sprintmail.com
Wed Jun 11 23:45:47 PDT 2003


On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 01:23:04 -0400 Kelley <the-squeeze at pulpculture.org> wrote


> 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?

Hicksvill? Peoria? Shambala? (Shangrai-la)

Armageddon (not sure on this last - but I think it orginally referred to a particular plain, and only later became a general term for battle of end of the world - better confirm before using this one.)



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