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11 years ago
by Chuck Entz
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Being derived from a proper noun, why isn't this also capitalised?
It probably has lost the connection to its origins, in the same way that terms such as
hamburger
(
Hamburg
,
Germany
),
wiener
(
Vienna
,
Austria
),
turkey
(
Turkey
) and
spaniel
, (
Spain
) have.
Chuck Entz
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01:07, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
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