"Commercial" words (WAS: plural people)

[Wilson Gray]

On 4/19/06, Victoria Neufeldt <vneufeldt at merriam-webster.com> wrote:
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> > [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
> > Of Laurence Horn
> > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:36 AM
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> > Subject: Re: plural people
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> > At 7:15 AM -0700 4/13/06, James Smith wrote:
> > >I hear such plural references as meaning a group or
> > >class in reference to an eponymous archtype.
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> > Hey, I really like "eponymous archetype".  That's more grown up than
> > "italics" and "dentifrice" put together!  (Actually, I was going to
> > say that not only do I (like Wilson) remember "dentifrice" from TV
> > commercials and magazine ads, but that those are the only places I
> > can remember hearing/seeing it.  It's one of those words with
> > commercial applications only.
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> > Larry



Larry, I appreciate your trying to spare the feelings of a senior citizen,
but it's from *radio* that *I* recall the use of "dentifrice." ;-) And, like
Victoria, vide infra, I also have the impression that "launder" is a word
extinct in the wild.

-Wilson


Like the verb 'launder'?
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