It is. Giuseppe Brolga is unjustly neglected. His opera I tre sposi di Moskowitz (1866) is well worth revival.
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So where does it say that proper nouns are not allowed?
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guyot is among other things the name of a vine pruning system invented by guess who - the issue with playing that word is the source which is almost bound to be limited to a gardening book... when I first joined the game we discussed this and decided that the dictionary of fruit culture was |NOT| a valid dictionary - now if I had played it and said 'a kind sea mount' (as OED) also derived from the name of another Guyot then that of course is OK
- I sort of agree with you in the sense that the word should be
an x named after 'X' rather than a plain 'X' but I don't see any
sensible way of talking about it cardigan, raglan, mackintosh,
hoover, bic, biro etc must be playable words
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Stephen
Any imbroglio is I think in your own universe... nothing I have seen suggests that we aren't playing this word. My response to Efrem was discursive about playing words that include a person's name
I think 'da dealer as God' would have to announce the abandonment
of this word
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Sorry, I took the joke but I also had the arrogance to try and
correct a legend -- very many apologies
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RE: “I trust Tim to sort them out.”
We can always make his job harder by continuing this discussion without a subject rename!
For the record, my thoughts:
Also of note… almost always, dealers note that “capitalization does not matter”. For proper names, capitalization likely would matter…
From: <dixo...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Efrem G Mallach <efrem....@gmail.com>
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Date: Monday, February 24, 2020 at 9:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 3053 new word BROLGA
My suggestion that BROLGA was the name of a minor Italian opera composer was a NAD, not intended to disparage the validity of the word or to lead to its being withdrawn. Nothing I've seen so far suggests that it has been.
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