Capitonym Posted by sleepyshift on Sunday August 07, 2022 @02:38PM from the en.wikipedia.org dept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitonym ( 1 comment | 2 points | on HN )
Also people don't say cancer the disease, they call it The Big C, or The C Word. This just stigmatizes it and makes it seem like a dirty word IMHO.