[lbo-talk] Re: Lbo-talk digest, Vol 1 #587 - 18 msgs

[Jonathan Schwarz]

Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:


>> working on a list of toponyms which originate as proper place names 
>> but
>> then come to have a more generalized meaning...any other good ones?
>
> Utopia

Wasn't Utopia coined by Thomas More? That is, it was never an actual 
place?

Also, "World Trade Center" should definitely be on the list, as in "if 
we have another World Trade Center, Bush will crush the Democrats in 
2004."