This is a list of words derived from toponyms, followed by the place name it is derived from.
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“Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives—from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango—with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to- date scripts for actors on the tourists’ stage.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)
“The words of a dead man
Are modified in the guts of the living.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“All moral discipline, all moral perfection derived from the soul of literature.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)