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Old Fri May 30, 2003, 10:34am
Barry C. Morris Barry C. Morris is offline
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Re: Genericide Rules - Congrats to RecRef

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Originally posted by CYO Butch
Check out http://www.wordspy.com/words/genericide.asp RecRef was absolutely right! Only minor problem is that the earliest citation for the word was 1983, so a HS teacher might not have been using it in the timeframes involved.
Genericide has to do with the process, not with the products of the process. That's why I think Juulie's is probably more what I'm looking for. I graduated from HS in 1982, btw, so the timeframe is close.
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