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#42817 09/28/01 08:05 AM
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>After they invaded Britannia ...

It's such a shame that they never made across to Las Vegas, they would have had such fun with the slot machines. I'm sure that they wouldn't have minded losing a few denarii.


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still trickling in....

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stales


#42819 09/29/01 08:37 PM
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Isn't kechup a phonetic of the original (tomato) catsup?
Now....where do we go with that?

As for chuney, I prefer Major Grey's Chutney. Wasn't there a real Major Grey ... a sorta' Brit version of Colonel Sanders ... who served in India and introduced bottled chutney into the commercial market in England ?
My Indian friend tells me there are many home recipes for chutney, varying with the region of India one is in.

And wasn't Caesar salad "invented" by Caesar Ritz the chef-hotelier? As were a bunch of othe dishes that are "a la Ritz?"

There! getting back to the named-for thread very neatly I thought!

Oops ...
And what about Ritz crackers. Argggh!

just keepin' the pot on the boil, folks!


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As I was glancing at the obituaries this morning, a name struck me that belongs here: Zimmer or Zimmer frame, known to USns as a "walker" (portable support for the elderly or infirm). Which term, or what term, is used in the antipodes and places other than UK and US?


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As a Canadian, I use the word "walker". (But I don't need one for myself, just yet.) Never heard Zimmer before, but that's what the Board is for!


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Zimmer...that's what the Board is for!

mutual support? framing the innocent? holding up real life?


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re: Zimmer...that's what the Board is for!

isn't zimmer the german for room(s)? (an inn keeper is a zimmerman, ja?) so i can get room and board here?

we do make everyone welcome, and we are open all hours of the day and night and goodness knows there is always food about!


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To bring things back to center - guillotine.

Perhaps we should limit the products to exclude things that have their own designation but form a subset with a proper name - which would accept Macadam the paving material but disallow Macadamia nuts, since there are plenty of nuts of other sorts.

Lots of physical constants were named for people, too: ampere, ohm, volt, watt and such are so much part of the language that they don't even get capitalized any more, and many elements (especially the newer ones) have people's names too. But of course they aren't products, strictly speaking. Or even loosely.

And don't forget that a lot of names came from things, rather than the other way around. I G Farber, for example, likely has someone back in the past being a merchant working with colors, etc; Steins, Woods, Coopers, Millers, even Smiths all have names with identifiable origins. Though there's always the possibility that some names were assigned arbitrarily at immigration centers...





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and then there is also Hobson's choice--and theories.. a suspect a favorite around here would be the Red Queen theory

and would we include a King's truss? (a type of truss used commonly for bridges, especially for bridges built by the "crown". so its not named for any particular king (as least none that i know of). (a former resident of Kingsbridge Road-- named for the colonial bridge on the same.)


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