Namely, 106

NAMELY

eponyms (EP-uh-nimz)

words based on or derived from a person's name.

First Known Use: mid-19^th century

“What’s in a Name?”

Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, 2.2­

106: Oscar: the annual awards for the best performances by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (from an offhand remark by the secretary of AMPAS: “He reminds me of my Uncle Oscar”—that is, Oscar Pierce, US wheat farmer and fruit grower; first known use, 1931)

She won an Oscar every year—

The judges were dismayed.

“How could this happen?” they all asked.

“We feel that we’ve been played.”

It seems that she had hacked the site

Where members got to vote,

And so the judges put her on

A very special boat

That had a very special leak—

They never found her bones,

For she had floated deep below—

Where she met Davy Jones.