Icebox lives on

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Dec 6 16:27:50 UTC 2002


>On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Dan Goodman wrote:
>
>>Now, what explains "broom"
>
>As in "that thing I remove debris on the floor with"?
>
>  and "glasses"?
>
>As in the "reading glasses" i now purchase for $6 a pair, since I had
>Lasik surgery?
>
I think the idea was that brooms aren't made from broom any longer,
nor are glasses made from glass, but we still call them by those
names.

L



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