From Proper Names to Common Usage — 6 мая 2026 г. в 05:01:01.054
From Proper Names to Common Usage I tend to come across more of such notions these days. Complete each sentence with the word that originally comes from a proper name (now commonly used in everyday language). 1. After signing the contract, the assistant was asked to ______ a copy of all the documents for each department before filing the originals. 2. Before leaving for the interview, she checked her ______ to confirm the schedule, contacts, and notes were all neatly organised in one place. 3. The carpet was covered in crumbs, so he quickly grabbed the ______ from the cupboard and cleaned the whole living room in a few minutes. 4. When no one could remember the exact date of the treaty, the historian decided to ______ it rather than search through the archives. 5. On the long commute, he preferred to relax with his ______, which held hundreds of books without taking up any space in his bag. Clues: the answers are from the following list. Restore the order and share in the comment box below. From Amazon’s e-reader, which popularised digital book reading; It is often used informally to refer to e-readers or digital reading devices. From a company, whose search engine became so widely used that the name became a generic verb meaning “to search online.” From a company, whose vacuum cleaners became so dominant in the UK that the name became a generic verb meaning “to vacuum.” From a British brand of ring-bound personal organisers. The name became a generic term for a structured planner system in the 1980s–1990s. Comes from Xerox Corporation, which popularised photocopying technology so widely that the brand name became a verb meaning “to photocopy.” #etymology@anglotest Записаться на занятия