Fictional characters gave their names to words too
Sep 24, 2020
2 minutes
Eponymous words (which we talked about last week) don’t only derive from the names of real people. Many have come from the names of fictional characters as well.
Take , for example. In 1907, American humorist Gelett Burgess poked fun at the way publishers had begun
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