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For me, reading about a zamboni causes always a short thinking pause to identify its meaning, as in Czech, we call a zamboni a "rolba", because of... a name of
by mormegil 6y ago
For me, reading about a zamboni causes always a short thinking pause to identify its meaning, as in Czech, we call a zamboni a "rolba", because of... a name of a Swedish company. (This process is called genericization or apellativization.)