This could go on for a long time.
>From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] toponyms
>Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 08:38:57 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Sardines!
>Champagne
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>Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> 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?
>
>Balkanization
>Polnische wirtschaft (=Polish i.e. messy economy)
>Wild West
>America (2 meanings: El Dorado and Wild West)
>Dixie - land -crat (or Mason-Dixon line)
>Bantustan
>Zion
>Brazilianisation (=acute social stratification between rich and poor)
>Continental breakfast (refering to continental Europe)
>Selling Brooklyn bridge
>China wall
>Shanghai (=obtaining a crew of a ship by abduction)
>Atlantis
>Greek (=obscure)
>Trojan horse
>Olympian
>Caucasian
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>Wojtek
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