On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 11:59 AM, Miles Jackson wrote:
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> Bordeaux.
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> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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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>> 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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