Personally, I've Always Liked The Sound of Sapphist...

[4thofeleven]

There was a story on the news about the island of Lesbos's quixotic effort to reclaim the term 'Lesbian', and it got me thinking - how many other words are there that originally referred to a place or a people but now have completely unrelated meanings? I can only think of Lesbian, Philistine, Vandal, and Laconic...

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[lyore.livejournal.com]

I never realised Laconic was connected to the Spartans. Huh.