Totally Off Topic...I need help from the vocabulary police

[Barry C. Morris]

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.