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Eponyms, names for things derived from people’s names, are peppered throughout the English language, like a kind of social history…
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Eponyms, names for things derived from people’s names, are peppered throughout the English language, like a kind of social history…
The word “January” has its origin in ancient Rome. It is derived from the Latin word “ianuarius,” which was named…
Steve Taylore-Knowles looks at the stories behind the English language. ‘[T]he who/whom distinction is going the way of the phonograph…
Etymology works in two directions. You can take a word in modern English and work backwards to its roots, as…
Steve Taylore-Knowles looks at the stories behind the English language. Behind every word there is history. And in the case…