Thursday, October 18, 2018

Namely, 8

NAMELY

EP-oh-nimz

a word based on or derived from a person's name.
First Known Use: mid-19th century

“What’s in a Name?”
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, 2.2

8: cardigan: a jacket-like, woolen sweater that opens at the front and may have buttons that are often left undone (source: James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, 1797–1868; English soldier; led the Charge of the Light Brigade, 25 October 1854; first use 1862)

He led that fabled Light Brigade*
That Tennyson would celebrate.
He swung his sharpened, famous blade—
Survived to die some other date.

But now we know him mostly for
Those sweaters that those old guys** wear.
Forgotten now is all that gore—
The cannon fire, swords swung in air!




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