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[Sabre Dance]

None of my young-ish nieces or nephews had ever beaten me at Scrabble. Then David finally slayed Goliath. On his last turn, my nephew was trying to put down L A P S but switched the L and A and made A L P S. I challenged, certain it was a proper name. Nope. The word alps means high mountains.

 

I don't know - I think that's one of those deals where you make the first letter of a proper noun lower-case and then it becomes generic.  For example, Kleenex is a brand of face tissues made by Kimberly-Clark, but if you write it as kleenex, it's just a tissue.  :blink:

[Sabres Fan in NS]

Well in that case, Naulter8, please come back already.

 

At this point he should.

 

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Edited March 18, 2015 by Sabres Fan In NS

[Stoner]

I don't know - I think that's one of those deals where you make the first letter of a proper noun lower-case and then it becomes generic.  For example, Kleenex is a brand of face tissues made by Kimberly-Clark, but if you write it as kleenex, it's just a tissue.  :blink:

Interesting. Alps as a brand. Or maybe the Alps were thusly named because the word alps already meant high mountains.