[lbo-talk] toponyms

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Thu Jun 12 09:59:33 PDT 2003


Bordeaux.

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, andie nachgeborenen wrote:


> 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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