Comments on: Google Becomes a Common Verb http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=11 A Blog about Words and Language(s) from alphaDictionary.com Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:00:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 By: Larry http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=11&cpage=1#comment-101278 Larry Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:03:53 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=11#comment-101278 I appreciate your assessment of Google as it takes on a new life in our lexicon. I do not fully agree with the application of eponym for this transition from trademark to verb. In my (limited) research, eponym has a more accurate use when a person's name is the root. Commonize and genericize are two other words that may be appropriate. None of these seem the best fit and most descriptive... the quest continues. I appreciate your assessment of Google as it takes on a new life in our lexicon.

I do not fully agree with the application of eponym for this transition from trademark to verb.

In my (limited) research, eponym has a more accurate use when a person’s name is the root.

Commonize and genericize are two other words that may be appropriate.

None of these seem the best fit and most descriptive… the quest continues.

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