I exclaimed out loud when I read about MySQL. I never liked the name before, and now I do.
And MariaDB is named after her sister.
And MaxDb is named after her brother
Things unexpectedly named after people (2020)
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#32Caesar salad after a Mexican chef not the emperor
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#33It took me too long to find out that Larry named PageRank after himself and not after ranking web pages.
And I was horrified when I learned that lynching is named after someone, and a perpetrator at that.
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#34Caesar salad after a Mexican chef not the emperor
So I should be pronouncing it Sayzar Salad?
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#35Snowflake was very surprising!
People that are not familiar with AZ weather patterns probably don't quite get the same sense of surprise.
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#36[edit, clearing since I guess this is too far afield, sorry, though it was interesting.]
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#37The teddy bear was named after Theodore Roosevelt (The president of the USA), after saving a baby bear during a hunting expedition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_bear)
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#38[edit, clearing since I guess this is too far afield, sorry, though it was interesting.]
The main point is the list are things named after people who's etymology is utterly unexpected and surprising. It's like if the Rocky mountains were named after William Rocky.
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#39I also love places that are named after someone and it's slightly amusing/horrifying.
Harold Holt was the Australian Prime Minister in the 1960's, and went for a swim and went missing (yes, there are many, MANY local conspiracies this :)). So what did we do? Named a swimming pool[0] after him (construction actually started before his death, I believe).
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Holt_Memorial_Swimming_...