[lbo-talk] Re: toponyms

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 12 14:55:06 PDT 2003


Dixieland (jazz), Stalingrad, Waterloo, Carthaginean (peace) . . .

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote:Port, Madeira, Motown, Manila (rope), Madras, Lesbian, Siamese

Munich, Potsdam, Yalta, Hiroshima, Oslo, Kyoto, Seattle... have come to mean the event or agreement rather than the place.

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