{"id":6936,"date":"2015-10-26T09:04:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T13:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6936"},"modified":"2015-10-26T09:04:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T13:04:06","slug":"eponyms-and-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6936","title":{"rendered":"Eponyms and Jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"

An eponym <\/a>is “a person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be named.” An example given by Merriam-Webster goes, “Toadfishes burp the songs of their eponyms; one sort of toadfish is called the singing midshipman. \u2014John Hersey, Harper’s<\/em>, May 1987.”<\/p>\n

The now defunct Schott’s Vocab blog offered a few humorous eponyms<\/a> some years ago.<\/p>\n

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  1. Bruckheimer: To catastrophically destroy.<\/li>\n
  2. Edvard Greed: Norway\u2019s most well-known banker.<\/li>\n
  3. Apostrophes: The Greek God of Punctuation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There are a few more.<\/p>\n

    In another post, he has a collection of jokes<\/a>, including this one submitted by Paul.<\/p>\n

    Harold Camping, the minister who predicted the end of the world on May 21, is a former civil engineer. Which just proves what we always knew: NEVER trust an engineer when he gives you a schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    An eponym is “a person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be named.” An example given by Merriam-Webster goes, “Toadfishes burp the songs of their eponyms; one sort of toadfish is called the singing midshipman. \u2014John Hersey, Harper’s, May 1987.” The now defunct Schott’s Vocab blog offered a few … Continue reading Eponyms and Jokes<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[889,1498],"class_list":["post-6936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goofing","tag-eponyms","tag-jokes"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}