;Posted on 05/21/2014 5:17:49 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, May 21, 2014-- toponym
;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]
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.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
Students are invited to use an example of a toponym instead of the word “toponym” itself, if you prefer.
let’s not go giving off death vibes now!
only THREE days until he enters into holy matrimony!
Sorry. I’m just saying.
So, Tom Wolf won the Dem primary for PA governor, which was totally expected.
Clinton in-law Margary Margolies (no longer Mezvinsky) lost her primary for a House seat.
she divorced the convict?
I’m pretty sure Alabama Hot Pocket is about the dirtiest thing ever.
i don’t want to know! ::Fingers in ears and i am humming:: ; )
Apparently. She’s no longer the “3M” she was back when she gave us Clinton’s 1993 tax increase.
Then definitely don’t go to urbandictionary.com
OMG disgusting! why did you need to make me go and look that up???
I told you NOT to go there. And I also told you it’s about the dirtiest thing ever. Your own curiosity made yourself look it up.
people are sick, seriously.
In Texas, when we plan to do something PDQ, we say we do it in “a New York minute”
Only three. Holy moley.
Thanks.
It could very well be “Toponym mornin’ to ye!” at the castle in County Cork, Ireland and the Stone from which all the Blarney began ...
Tomorrow’s number will be so much better.
i knew you had forgotten! ; )
oh is that a NASCAR thang?
Yes, the late Dale Earnhardt. Everyone knows that, even those of us who think driving around in a circle is puerile.
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