Talk:List of eponyms (A-K)
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This page was nominated for deletion on 23 November 2007. The result of the discussion was keep. |
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[edit] Relevant discussions copied over from talk:eponym
Who's going to put one of those nice alphabets at the top? The list is getting very long!!! JFW | T@lk 17:30, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Done! Jay 10:04, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
There are some websites that have fictious stories about the origins of some terms. Perhaps originally written for fun, they turn up in many articles and appear to be genuine. The list is provided here so they don't get into the page. Jay 07:47, 25 May 2004 (UTC)
It would appear that this list is inconsistently sorted (e. g. Alice Lidell is listed under A). Also, I'm unsure under what letter should Prince Albert(his full name/title is 'Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Francis Augustus Charles Albert Emanuel)' so there's plenty of choice ;)) be listed. Jergosh 22:07, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] List of spurious or unreal etymologies
| Invention | Person |
|---|---|
| Avocado | Jorge-Luis Avocado |
| Asphalt | Leopold von Asphalt |
| Binge | Sir Oswald Binge |
| Buffet | Pierre-Alphonse Buffet |
| Bugle | Hereward Bugle |
| Cabaret | Antoine de Cabaret |
| Comma | Domenico da Comma |
| Condom | Earl of Condom |
| Corset | Etienne Corset |
| Crapper | Thomas Crapper (only a coincidence; word preceded him) |
| Curry | Sir George Curry |
| Ketchup | Noah Ketchup |
| Litre | Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre |
| Lager beer | Gottfried and/or Sigmund Lager |
| Marmalade | Joao Marmalado |
| Pilchard | Matthew Pilchard |
| Salon | Marquise Henriette de Salon |
| Trousers | Jacob Trowser |
[edit] Merge from Kafkaesque
I removed the following from the Kafkaesque article. I'd append these to List of eponyms, but could use suggestions:
[[Brechtian]] [[Borges|Borgesian]] [[Lord Byron|Byronic]] [[Cartesian]] [[Dickensian]] [[Draco (lawgiver)|Draconian]] [[Joycean]] [[Lovecraftian]] [[Machiavellianism|Machiavellian]] [[Nabokov|Nabokovian]] [[Orwellian]] [[Pinteresque]] [[Sadistic]]/[[Sadism and masochism|Sadism]] [[Tolkienesque]]
My questions:
- Are some of these not worth adding? It seems like any name could trivially be made into an eponym, (ad hoc for a review of an author's work for instance) and such usage would not merit a freestanding article—in fact, many of the above links are redirects or WP:DICDEFs, but probably matters little for this merge—but should they still get a mention on this list? Should any of the above be discarded?
- Is there an article (or a word) for eponyms based on author's names?
/ edg ☺ ☭ 03:53, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Potential additions
There's Kafkaesque, Pinteresque, Tolkienesque here. What about Beatlesque and Gilliamesque, two -esque eponyms right after Kafkaesque in popularity, and probably on par with Tolkienesque? --79.193.92.152 (talk) 00:12, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Merge from List of eponymous musical terms
This page has a small collection of eponyms which would be more useful here. --Kleinzach 04:22, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Unexplained eponyms
Anna Karenina has no explanation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.151.18.205 (talk) 04:56, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
