Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

TM  = Tim May
MR = Mark Reed (me)
AB = Amanda Babcock

TM> Since when is "sofa" a trademark?

MR> Whups.  For some reason I thought I'd heard that it was, but
MR> I was apparently mistaken.  Lomkan zama' (= "mea culpa").

AB> Maybe you were thinking of "Davenport?"  That sounds more like a
AB> genericized trademark to me.

Ah!  That is indeed what I was thinking of.  Thanks.

-Mark