NAMELY
eponyms (EP-uh-nimz)
words 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
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.
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