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, w...

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