Anonyponymous

Carefully curated and unfailingly witty, this book is both a fantastic gift for language lovers and a true pleasure to read.

Anonyponymous by"John Bemelmans Marciano"

Eponymous, adj. Giving one's name to a person, place, or thing. Anonymous, adj. Anonymous. Anonyponymous, adj. Anonymous and eponymous. The Earl of Sandwich, fond of salted beef and paired slices of toast, found a novel way to eat them all together. Etienne de Silhouette, a former French finance minister, was so notoriously cheap that his name became a byword for chintzy practices-such as substituting a darkened outline for a proper painted portrait. Both bequeathed their names to the language, but neither man is remembered. In this clever and funny book, John Bemelmans Marciano illuminates the lives of these anonyponymous persons. A kind of encyclopedia of linguistic biographies, the book is arranged alphabetically, giving the stories of everyone from Abu \

Anonyponymous
By:"John Bemelmans Marciano"
Published on 2009-11-03 by Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Ebook Title : Anonyponymous

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ISBN_13 Code : 9781608191628

ISBN_10 Code : 1608191621

Book Print Type : BOOK

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Book Author :"John Bemelmans Marciano"

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Book Pages Count : 160

Print Type : BOOK

Book's Categories :"Language Arts & Disciplines"

Books Language : en

Text to Speech Access : ALLOWED

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