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Pottery is made in a pottery. What else is made in its namesake? Is there a name for this?

  • Pottery is made in a pottery. What else is made in its namesake? Is there a name for this? I can think of lots of examples that revolve around place names: cheddar is made in Cheddar, champagne is made in Champagne etc. but what about examples like 'pottery' that are not location specific, but refer to the generic place the item is made.

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    We might need a linguist to explain exactly what's going on here, but I've always understood "pottery" as a general class of pots and "pottery" as a place of pot-ing to mean slightly different things, even if the word's the same. Some other English words do this, like: Haberdashery Millinery Drapery

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