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Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

From:Amanda Babcock <langs@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 13:06
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:56:03PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 07:14:58PM +0100, Tim May wrote: > > Since when is "sofa" a trademark? > > Whups. For some reason I thought I'd heard that it was, but > I was apparently mistaken. Lomkan zama' (= "mea culpa").
Maybe you were thinking of "Davenport?" That sounds more like a genericized trademark to me. Amanda

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>