Comments on: I’m on an Eponym “Binge” http://thiseclecticlife.com/2007/02/26/im-on-an-eponym-binge/ Sassy Texas Storyteller Tue, 15 May 2012 18:23:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Vince Brewster http://thiseclecticlife.com/2007/02/26/im-on-an-eponym-binge/comment-page-1/#comment-3669 Vince Brewster Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:43:01 +0000 http://thiseclecticlife.com/?p=49#comment-3669 Now what might be fun for you is to find out how many of those are false etymologies. For example, the <em>Oxford English Dictionary</em> (almost always as close to authoritative as you can get) doesn't buy the Fitzherbert Batty tale. <em><strong>OH NO! I believed everything I read on the internet :lol: What does the Oxford English Dictionary claim? I'm tangled up in yarn and can't go look!~skt</strong></em> Now what might be fun for you is to find out how many of those are false etymologies. For example, the Oxford English Dictionary (almost always as close to authoritative as you can get) doesn’t buy the Fitzherbert Batty tale.

OH NO! I believed everything I read on the internet :lol: What does the Oxford English Dictionary claim? I’m tangled up in yarn and can’t go look!~skt

]]> By: JAM http://thiseclecticlife.com/2007/02/26/im-on-an-eponym-binge/comment-page-1/#comment-1226 JAM Tue, 15 May 2007 15:04:52 +0000 http://thiseclecticlife.com/?p=49#comment-1226 This was nothing short of awesome. I knew a handful of these, but most I didn't know. This was nothing short of awesome. I knew a handful of these, but most I didn’t know.

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