Thread by @chittukuruvi4

Eponym - When something is named after a person or a place or a company, we call that name an eponym. A short but interesting thread. For instance, did you know that the word sideburns is an eponym?

1. Named after Ambrose Burnside. Let's look at some examples. He was an American railroad executive, soldier, industrialist, and politician whose distinctive facial hair inspired the word sideburns.

2. Alois Alzheimer is credited with identifying "presenile dementia," which was later named Alzheimer’s disease after him.
3. Boycott is derived from an English land agent named Captain Charles C. Boycott who treated Irish badly and so was ostracized or “boycotted” by the them.

4. Cardigan - The button-up sweater is named for James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, a British lieutenant general who led the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. The cardigan was modeled after the knitted wool waistcoats that British officers

5. Mesmerize comes from the physician Franz Mesmer, who established a theory of energy transference between all animate and inanimate things called “animal magnetism.”

6. Nicotine, named after the French ambassador to Portugal, brought tobacco plants to France from a trip to Portugal in 1559. Originally touted for its supposed medicinal properties, the plant and later the molecule were named for Nicot.

7. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit was a 17th-century physicist and inventor who invented the reliable thermometers and the Fahrenheit scale.

8. Spoonerism: William Archibald Spooner - he was a British clergyman and educator, who lived from 1844 to 1930, often had to speak in public.

But he was a nervous man and his tongue frequently got tangled up. He would say for e.g."a blushing crow" when he meant "a crushing blow."

9. Nidhied: Nidhi in India means money or fund. But acutally now has got an opposite meaning. there are 2 parts to it.

Part 1 - refers to getting fooled and scammed easily.
Part 2 - refers to not accepting the reality and then actually whine about it.

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