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“It was 1947, the South Africans were touring; I was just home for the school holidays and after lunch on 26 July Wisden remains invaluable for spot-on logging of one's whole life, relayed live from Headingley came a distinctive voice out of the old bakelite wireless set in the corner of our West Country kitchen.”
The Guardian: The day I was bowled over by John Arlott's soupy-thick vowels | Frank Keating
“Three dudes, flappin 'gums at a bakelite table, like our Founders intended.”
“There were the melamine dishes, often used for camping and very similar in denseness to the bakelite of old.”
“Later came the fully synthetic, not found anywhere in nature, plastics such as epoxy and bakelite.”
“I have one bakelite button that is put on like a buttoniere and has a screw back.”
“(M Sarki, I plan to read your comment here) But Cooper and Cindy I just have to say that listening to WLS in Chicago when I got my paper-route-yard-sale-bakelite-fifty-cent-radio, years ago, “War” was one of the songs that was played in my first days listening to it.”
“The light fittings in their private quarters have changed little over the decades and are said to give off the faint smell of warm bakelite when they have been left on too long.”
“Three dudes, flappin' gums at a bakelite table, like our Founders intended.”
“I have bought some amazing buttons from them-I really love big buttons, and bakelite buttons( I guess I could go on and on about all the buttons I love...), and have been planning for years it seems like(!) to mount them in a frame to hang in my small sewing room.”
“The old Western Electric phones, early phonograph discs, and even bowling balls were made of bakelite.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bakelite’.
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Fake Minerals & Gemstones
dogbite, oliverstone, priceisrite, flapis faloozi, uptite, spondulikite, flashlite, crumpetwithvegemite, samsonite, goodnite, tennisquartz, fallfromagreathite and 101 more...
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List of words from phrontistery.info
babeldom, baccate, bacchanal, bacciferous, bacciform, baccivorous, bacillicide, backstay, bactericide, baculiform, baculine, baculum and 582 more...
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Fictional music genres
fudgepunk, whangboogie, electrogush, jizzbilly, glambient, queasy listening, chip shop, baroque'n'roll, prog folk, chemo, riant grrl, blingfolk and 584 more...
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No end of plastic
frisbee, hula-hoop, cellulosic, plasticky, fictile, lego, gutta-percha, bakelite, Parkesine, polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, celluloid and 39 more...
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madmelanie's Words
monkey, folderol, snark, snarky, flibbertigibbet, faith, asshat, pirouette, avuncular, exegesis, memento mori, verisimilitude and 379 more...
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trademark
all of these are from 7 English
dictionaries and Macquarie dictionary
I havent listed capitalized ones yet
but Viagra would be one and common
words like sterling a sub-machi...agene, adware, airbus, alnico, amberina, amarone, apiezon, aspirin, atebrin, atebrine, autocue, autoharp and 774 more...
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deegee's Words
pay-per-view, vitriol, delectable, snarky, unflinching, forsake, pervasive, inconsequential, unnerving, allure, endearing, unalloyed and 414 more...
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Addenda to the 1923 Printing of Webst...
Many of these words first came into common usage during World War I, and reflect not only the technological and scientific leaps of the early part of the 20th century, but the new experience of glo...
abri, ace, acidosis, airdrome, air fleet, airplane, air raid, airworthy, altimeter, anaphylaxis, anociassociation, anti-aircraft and 292 more...
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another yet
anneal, copepod, cuckoo, fathead, intone, patter, cabriole, knickknack, boodle, kit, estrange, forebode and 209 more...
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trademarks
kleenex, xerox, hoover, google, styrofoam, dumpster, frisbee, band-aid, klaxon, teflon, nalgene, hula-hoop and 15 more...
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Y'all come back now!
Words that remind me of Grandma's.
mosquito, kudzu, potluck, mud, famous, county, honey, sugar, sweetie, reckon, loblolly, bakelite and 15 more...
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Trade Names
rollerblade, zeppelin, kleenex, band-aid, tabasco, jell-o, trojans, rooty-tooty fresh..., xerox, google, velcro, coke and 39 more...
Tweets
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bonnie i wonder what it tastes like
i'm gonna go lick the pot handles in my kitchen
they taste like concrete and baby powder
yuck Oct 29, 2008
reesetee Love that Bakelite. :-) Jul 14, 2007
slumry Bakelite is 100 years old today (7/13/2007)! The claim is that bakelite was the first "true" synthetic plastic. Dunno.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11959165 Jul 14, 2007