It's not too late to start calling Li-ion batteries Goodenough batteries.
Things Unexpectedly Named After People
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Re: Things Unexpectedly Named After People
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The best example of this is Torpenhow Hill in Cumbria, England. Torr, penn, and howe all mean “hill” in different languages.
There are several such triples: - Eas Fors Waterfall - Deschutes Falls, Tumwater, Washington - Lochmere Lake, Cary, North Carolina - Bredon Hill, Pendle Hill, (hill hill hill) - Nesoddtangen (cape cape cape) - Wookey Hole Caves (cave cave cave) Lake Semerwater is a near-quad: lake lake lake water. Then there are double doubles: The La Brea Tar Pits (the the tar tar pits).
in fiction, Castle DunBroch from Disney's Brave.
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#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
You seem to have ignored most of my comment for this discussion.
I can respond to the rest of it. I wanted to know where the idea that it's common to view the cognomen as a surname came from. It's bizarre. > There are modern people today with a surname of Caesar. Somehow, the name of the late celebrity Sid Caesar pops up for me. Wikipedia has more Not really relevant when the claim was that (1) Little Caesars is named after someone's surname; and/or (2) Caesar was Julius Caesar's…
> This isn't common at all. What country are you thinking of?
Very very common in my childhood in the northeastern and mid Atlantic United States. I have heard it from west coaters too.
No answer to the nickname "Smitty"? It is a common one, derived from Smith. You can Google it.
Re: Things Unexpectedly Named After People
#284America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer who was pretty sure America was a separate continent - pretty random ! https://www.loc.gov/wiseguide/aug03/america.html
Bolivia is named after Simon Bolivar, its first president.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_named_after_...
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6 year olds dying of brain cancer is my best evidence for the non existence of God
I'm surprised that should he exist, everyone assumes he is obligated to interdict himself in the affairs of men. If I'm honest, it's a little arrogant of us.
he canonically created us, didn't he? got to be at least a little bit interested. tho of course I don't see the point of debating the motivations of a fictional character
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Adidas = Adi Dassler
This doesn't belong in the category, since it's obviously a name. If it were called "Running Shoes" because the company founder was named "Running", then it would belong..
It doesn't belong in the same way that Debian doesn't.
The good ones in the list are good because they are not obviously a name of a person, the name of the thing makes sense independently to it being named after a person.
"Lake Mountain" could easily be named that because it is a mountain with a lake, so it is interesting that Lake Mountain is named after someone named Lake; Adidas and Debian are unexpected simply because they don't look like the name of a person, or anything else!
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So kind of like how Thomas Crapper invented the modern toilet.
Dang. Beat me by 2 min.
There's another one, closer to home: dang.
I'd always thought the comment's attributes name was because "dang, time to chastise another one" but it turns out that "Dan G" is (maybe) a person!
Man, look at all that karma fly out of the window... Oops. Wrong site!
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Another food item: – Caesar salad — named after Caesar Cardini, a restauranteur in San Diego and Tijuana [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_salad
I don't think it's unexpectedly named after a person, but it may qualify as named after an unexpected person.
Nachos are also named after a person - a maitre d' named Ignacio, who needed to come up with something to serve one night after his chef had already left). The word "Nazi" comes from the same root, a nickname for Ignatz used to make fun of Bavarian peasants.
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Related to "big annular": why does the Latin word for ring have a diminutive suffix ( -ulus ), even when it refers to big rings? Well, of course because anus came to refer to one very specific ring.
I am not sure of what is the historical order of things: in Latin the word "anus" does also mean "ring" or "circle", although it later came to only retain its anatomical meaning, while its diminutive retained the general meaning. But as for what caused what, I have no idea. Let me just note that there are other words that descend from the Latin diminutive instead of the basic form. For example, "castrum" with its dim…
"Chapel" is another example. (It descends from a word meaning "little cape".)
Re: Things Unexpectedly Named After People
#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
The best example of this is Torpenhow Hill in Cumbria, England. Torr, penn, and howe all mean “hill” in different languages.
There are several such triples: - Eas Fors Waterfall - Deschutes Falls, Tumwater, Washington - Lochmere Lake, Cary, North Carolina - Bredon Hill, Pendle Hill, (hill hill hill) - Nesoddtangen (cape cape cape) - Wookey Hole Caves (cave cave cave) Lake Semerwater is a near-quad: lake lake lake water. Then there are double doubles: The La Brea Tar Pits (the the tar tar pits).
And the baseball team, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (the the angels angels of Ana's home)