"Commercial" words (WAS: plural people)

[Laurence Horn]

>On 4/19/06, Victoria Neufeldt <vneufeldt at merriam-webster.com> wrote:
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>>  Subject:      "Commercial" words (WAS: plural people)
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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
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>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.
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>-Wilson

not to mention "washday product"

LH

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>Like the verb 'launder'?
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