[lbo-talk] toponyms

[Shane Mage]

>lil help?
>
>working on a list of toponyms which originate as proper place names 
>but then come to have a more generalized meaning.

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Shane


>  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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