Abort and aborftion are rarely used except in women’s rights context.
DDT.
People are dying from Malaria outbreaks, and DDT might never be used again because of a panic book written with no science to back it up.
DDT has a stigma that science and human death/tragedy cannot overcome.
I thought I was the last person standing to remember the days of GRID. 
Ebeneezer After Mr. Dickens wrote that book, I dont think anyone was named Ebeneezer ever again.
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How about black trenchcoats or dusters? If I were to see one today, the first thing I’d think of is the Columbine tragedy, especially if I saw one worn by a high school student.
ACME
There used to be thousands of companies named “Acme” (meaning the best or most successful). Then Wile E. Coyote came along.
Oh yeah? What about this ?
I don’t mean to suggest it’s a bad thing to be, but you don’t hear many guys saying, “I feel gay today.” At least, not since the 19th century. Or unless they ARE gay in 21st-century terms.
No. Abort is still used. In engineering we talk about aborting tests all the time. How common a word was abortion in the past? Not very, I think.
Technically, if you’ve ever met anyone named Judah or Yehuda or similar variants thereof, you have. “Judas” is simply the Greek form of that Hebrew name.
You’re right that Christians avoid the name, but Jews still use it all the time, as they don’t regard the New Testament (including the story of Jesus’ disciple Judas and his treachery) as authoritative scripture.
The Denver Broncos player Ebenezer Ekuban would be surprised to hear that. (Note correct spelling with no double “e”.)
Yeah, the name’s nowhere near as common as it was in the 19th century, but neither are many other long-ass Old Testament names such as Jedediah, Ezekiel, and Hepzibah. I’d want to see some evidence before concluding that Dickens’ Christmas Carol was really the driving force behind the obsolescence of “Ebenezer”.
Of course, but the name used to be way more common than it is now. And of course, the name is sometimes chosen ***because of *** the cartoons.
My old hometown had a building that was erected back in the 20s that had a swastika adorning the facade at the top. Since the building was acquired by new owners, the symbol has been covered by a new mosaic. But those of us of an age still point it out to newcomers, just as a history lesson.
I betcha Ahab has become a lot less common as a name since Mr. Melville wrote that book. I’ll bet this was true even in the 19th century, when naming your kids after Jewish kings was still hip. I’m not too familiar with Jezebels, either, aside from the one in Asimov’s “Caves of Steel”.
Regarding flags and symbols of disappeared and unlamented regimes, if you go to the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial (the upstairs one that you enter from Central Park west/8th Ave) at the American Museum of Natural History, you’ll find “Rising Sun” Japanese flags on the wall mural.
Well, DDT can and is still used, but it did significantly harm birds by making the birdshells too thin. The brown pelican (SoCal) was almost wiped out.
I helped run a pool party for a number of young teenaged girls last weekend, and you should have heard the shrieks when they spotted the swastikas in the tile around the pool. The building is beautiful, and built by Al Capone, so the swastikas, I’m sure, are original. It took a *lot *of work to calm them down and explain the historical context.
It wasn’t long ago when my computer would do something dumb, and ask me if I wanted to Wait, Retry or Abort
They’re THE thing with the emo boys. I bought one for my son for Christmas. The ideal is floor length, black wool and very square in the shoulders. I ended up getting him a nice men’s cashmere overcoat a couple of sizes too big and he’s declared it “perfect”.
I don’t think I’ve ever met a Lucifer, although I know several men named Lucien.
Black trenchcoats are practically a rainy-season uniform here.
Did you even look at the link? This is a catalog of all the Acme products used in WB cartoons.
Inaccurate is something of an understatement. DDT is in use to fight malaria, DDT is definitely harmful, Rachel Carson’s book can’t accurately be described as “panic”, there’s plenty of science to back it up, and arguably DDT should be more stigmatized than it now is, since people still seem motivated to defend it.
So I would say “completely wrong in every respect, bordering on disingenuous” is a better description.
Sailboat
Birds have shells?