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Word For The Day, Wednesday, May 21, 2014-- toponym
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Posted on 05/21/2014 5:17:49 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, May 21, 2014-- toponym
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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
toponym [top-uh-nim]
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noun
1. a place name.
2. a name derived from the name of a place.
Origin: 1890–95; top- + -onym, or by back formation from toponomy
From Wordsmith.org:
Once upon a time, a person's name was his complete identification and address. It could comprise his given name, profession, father or mother's name, a personal trait, and even the name of his village. That was because where one lived defined a person as much as anything else. The place of origin often turned into a generic term for some personal characteristic.
The English language is replete with such expressions where the name of a place has become associated with a particular quality, such as laconic (using few words) from Laconia in ancient Greece or bohemian (unconventional) from Bohemia in the Czech Republic. There are hundreds of toponyms -- words derived from the names of places.
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“It won’t be long before Benghazi becomes a toponym for a failure of policy covered up by a plethora of lies.”
To: xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; Slip18; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...
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posted on
05/21/2014 5:18:33 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Jay Carney: The (Benghazi) emails weren't about Benghazi.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
A toponym would be what you’d like to be called primarily.
As opposed to a botonym, which is what you’d least like to be referred to as.
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posted on
05/21/2014 5:21:53 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Kinda like the Burgh?
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posted on
05/21/2014 5:21:58 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: MrB
is that like pitcher/catcher? ; )
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posted on
05/21/2014 5:22:30 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Vegas. And how some people call my town Nashvegas.
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posted on
05/21/2014 5:24:56 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
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posted on
05/21/2014 5:27:10 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Would Cleveland steamer be a toponym?
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posted on
05/21/2014 5:27:11 AM PDT
by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
To: MrB
A+
What I'd least like to be referred to is a liberal.
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posted on
05/21/2014 5:27:19 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Jay Carney: The (Benghazi) emails weren't about Benghazi.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Or what about Alabama hot pocket?
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posted on
05/21/2014 5:27:48 AM PDT
by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
To: xsmommy
A++
"The Burgh" does convey a mental image of Steelers, Penguins, Pirates, and those sandwiches with the french fries built in.
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posted on
05/21/2014 5:29:26 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Jay Carney: The (Benghazi) emails weren't about Benghazi.)
To: secret garden
A++
In a strange twist of fate, someone from Vegas--with all the sin, sex, boozing and gluttony--might be called a vegan.
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posted on
05/21/2014 5:32:09 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Jay Carney: The (Benghazi) emails weren't about Benghazi.)
To: for-q-clinton
Would Cleveland steamer be a toponym?That would depend upon whether you were on the top or the bottom.
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posted on
05/21/2014 5:33:08 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Jay Carney: The (Benghazi) emails weren't about Benghazi.)
To: xsmommy; MrB; TruthShallSetYouFree
is that like pitcher/catcher? ; ) Oh, Obama has long been a catcher - Even looking at his Little League “photo-op” pictures, you can tell he can't pitch. Bottomnym receiver fer sure.
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posted on
05/21/2014 5:36:14 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: secret garden
Racist animal exploitation day? ;-)
To: xsmommy
Didn’t think you’d go there, mommy...
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posted on
05/21/2014 5:44:42 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Toponymornin’ to ya, Truthie!
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posted on
05/21/2014 5:46:03 AM PDT
by
SAJ
To: SoothingDave
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posted on
05/21/2014 5:46:23 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: MrB
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posted on
05/21/2014 5:47:46 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: MrB
and i can honestly say, everything remotely dirty that i know, i learned on FR!
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posted on
05/21/2014 5:48:21 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
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