Totally Off Topic...I need help from the vocabulary police - Page 2

Barry C. Morris · #16 (**permalink**) Fri May 30, 2003, 08:11am

You know, after all these years, I don't believe I would know the specific word he used if you slapped me in the face with it. Juulie, you've convinced me that eponym will work just fine. I knew my faith in you wasn't misplaced.

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CYO Butch · #17 (**permalink**) Fri May 30, 2003, 10:29am

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.

Barry C. Morris · #18 (**permalink**) Fri May 30, 2003, 10:34am

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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.

mick · #19 (**permalink**) Fri May 30, 2003, 10:41am

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Originally posted by Barry C. Morris

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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.

For me, it was during "Industrial Marketing" in 1970.