Description From diesel to gerrymandering, the English language is rich with eponyms--words that are named after an individual.
The many histories behind these words are often mesmerizing--a word named, incidentally, after the German physician Franz Mesmer, who developed the practice of hypnotism as a form of therapy.
Deriving from numerous sources, eponyms are full of intrigue.
This book features one hundred and fifty of the most interesting and enlightening specimen.
Bodleian Library The real mccoy: and 149 other eponyms, hardcover/claire cock-starkey
