The Real McCoy: And 149 Other Eponyms by Claire Cock-Starkey

The Real McCoy: And 149 Other Eponyms

Claire Cock-Starkey

144 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history reference informative slow-paced
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From diesel to gerrymandering, the English language is rich with eponyms—words that are named after an individual. The many histories behind these words are often mesmerizing—a word named, incidentally, after the German physician Franz Mesmer, who...

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