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> Bordeaux.
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> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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> > Sardines!
> > Champagne
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > Wojtek
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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