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But perhaps even worse is the alternate fashion of just using common nouns as names, for example, Rust, Ruby, and Scheme.
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Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Sep. 2023
Surprisingly, the team’s results suggest that at least 10 to 30 quantifiably different concept variants exist for even common nouns such as penguin.
—Simon Makin, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023
The word perpetua became a common noun for house helpers of priests after Manzoni used it as the name of a house helper in his novel.
—The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
His proper name would become a common noun, a contemptible exclamation and novel profanity.
—Jack Hitt, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Sep. 2023
Surprisingly, the team’s results suggest that at least 10 to 30 quantifiably different concept variants exist for even common nouns such as penguin.
—Simon Makin, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023
The word perpetua became a common noun for house helpers of priests after Manzoni used it as the name of a house helper in his novel.
—The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
His proper name would become a common noun, a contemptible exclamation and novel profanity.
—Jack Hitt, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
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