Sort of an obvious one, but MariaDB is named after Michael Widenius’s other child, Maria.
Things Unexpectedly Named After People
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#12Sort of an obvious one, but MariaDB is named after Michael Widenius’s other child, Maria.
MaxDB too, named after is son Max
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#15The Elo rating system in chess is often written in capital letters, but it is not an acronym. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo. https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/1327/what-does-elo...
A double twist is that in the original Hungarian his name is Élő that means "Live". For the first few decades of hearing "Élő"-score, I just assumed it meant your "live" score, as in your score at the current time. I wonder if others had that confusion too.
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#16Most of these are great. Taco Bell makes sense to me however - I didn't expect to buy bells there. If it had been named after a Melanie Taco or similar, THAT would've been notable.
My contribution: Lake Mountain in Victoria!
"There is no lake at Lake Mountain, the area was named after George Lake, who was the Surveyor-General of the area including the mountain."
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#17The color #663399 is named "rebeccapurple", after Rebecca Meyer, who passed away at age 6. https://css-tricks.com/rebbeccapurple-663399/
was unexpected to me when i first learned CSS, and now is a bittersweet memory i gladly pass on.
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#18There's a common story that referring to a toilet as a "crapper" was related to Thomas Crapper. Apparently, not true, despite his influence in the field. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper
That is true of Sandwich (earl of) tho, which I find fun.
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#19In french, a waste container is called "une poubelle". From the name of the prefect Eugène Poubelle who decided the collection of waste in Paris in 1884. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poubelle
This isn't just a list of things named after people, but "unexpectedly named". For example "Main Street" being named after a person is surprising since you'd usually expect it to come from "main" in the sense of "principal". "Price Club" is funny since you'd expect that it's referring to low prices. Is there another pre-existing meaning for "poubelle" that makes this naming unexpected?
I think you're reading too much into the list. What's the non-name meaning of "Debian" supposed to be?
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#20In french, a waste container is called "une poubelle". From the name of the prefect Eugène Poubelle who decided the collection of waste in Paris in 1884. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poubelle
This isn't just a list of things named after people, but "unexpectedly named". For example "Main Street" being named after a person is surprising since you'd usually expect it to come from "main" in the sense of "principal". "Price Club" is funny since you'd expect that it's referring to low prices. Is there another pre-existing meaning for "poubelle" that makes this naming unexpected?
> Is there another pre-existing meaning for "poubelle" that makes this naming unexpected?
I mean, it _is_ the French term for "trash can".
It might be surprising to you, for example, if you'd suddenly find out that trash cans are named after "Michael Trashcan" or something along those lines.