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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Goon seem to me to be to be slang that will soon date, or has already dated. Does anyone still use it in real life?
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I do ;-)
But I do not live in English speaking country, to my English comes from the book reading, or at least large part of it.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
And the idea of eponyms is good, although I think only ones which have become lower-case, that is, the link to the original name is almost gone, like shrapnel and boycott and unlike, say, Brownian motion.
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the best ones are where most people already forgot where the name comes from, like
sandwich.
There is a nice book called Eponymous. It was in this book where I learned about shrapnel, boycott, leotards, sandwich ...
I will try to find out who wrote it.