Sabre Dance Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 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: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabres Fan in NS Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 (edited) Well in that case, Naulter8, please come back already. At this point he should. Last active, signed in anonymously as if that would hide him / her, at 5:30(ish) this morning. Edited March 18, 2015 by Sabres Fan In NS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PASabreFan Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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