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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
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.

Yeah, the inhabitant of Lesbos aren't particularly pleased either.

24 posted on 05/21/2014 6:05:02 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

A+++
Excellent usage.


28 posted on 05/21/2014 6:15:33 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Jay Carney: The (Benghazi) emails weren't about Benghazi.)
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