Originally Posted By: BranShea
By all means, return to RECEPTION.
Pinkerton is as useless as Princeton. Proper nouns out? Fine with me. Good luck.


I'm not routinely into this thread, although I occasionally read it.

As a matter of history, while Pinkerton was/is a proper noun, it became a common noun as well. An agent (spy or counter-spy) of the Pinkerton organization employed by the US Federal Government during the War of Northern Aggression, otherwise known as the War Between the States or the Civil War, became known as a "pinkerton."