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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisms_named_after_...
After you read the site, the title becomes wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponyms_(A%E2%80%93K)#...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponyms_(L%E2%80%93Z)#...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is the idea? How are these different from e.g. erlang, elo or shrapnel - all featured on the page?
" Unexpectedly named after people". Erlang seems to be short for for Ericsson Language, Elo is often misspelled ELO as if it stands for something. Shrapnel is less unexpected.
Sadism and masochism - perhaps less unexpected, but no less than shrapnel IMO.
One that surprised me recently: Coriolis force. I think I'd always assumed it was some latin-derived term to do with curling or curving, but no: named for Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis.
I learned this in school when we finally had a teacher who read it with the french accent rather then the Italian/latin one (stress on last I rather then second O). Mispronunciation of words I've only read has been the bane of my life.
Although one can stress a word in a sentence (prosodic stress) e.g for emphasis (contrast stress) there's no such thing as stressed syllables (tonic accent) in spoken french.
That's mostly why we native french people have a hard time speaking languages where stressed syllables matter and produces different phonemes for identically written syllables: the typical frenglish output is very monotonic and uniform. Combine that with the lack of back-of-throat Rs and tip-of-the-tongue TH which don't occur in french and you get your archetypal frenglish. And it's tough to learn because not only we're ill equipped by practice to produce those (proprioception and muscle strength) we also have a hard time hearing them as well, so we map those to french R and Z.
Conversely for someone whose native language is accented it's hard to understand that french completely lacks these, so the only way to think of how written-french syllables sound when read is that every syllable is accented, uniformly so.
Snow Canyon was named after Lorenzo and Erastus Snow. Incidentally, Erastus Snow is also one of the namesakes of Snowflake Arizona, which is on this list.
A few German companies: - Aldi (supermarket chain), founded by the Albrecht brothers, thus AL brecht DI skont - Adidas, founded by AD olf DAS sler - Mercedes-Benz, named by Emil Jellinek-Mercedes after his daughter Mercedes, initially with Daimler which then merged with Benz - Audi, founded by August Horch. Initially founded as _A. Horch & Cie. Motorwagenwerke Zwickau_, he later lost the rights to the name "Horch". H…
I sometimes feel that German founders are too stuck on naming their company after themself, some of them really should have looked for alternatives, e.g. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppelfricke