Alzheimer’s, Braille, Cardigan, Dahlia… The English language is rich with words derived from people’s names. This alphabetical guide explains the origins of hundreds of such eponyms, from Algorithm, after the 9th-century Persian mathematician al-Khwarizmi, to Wisteria, from the American scientist Caspar Wistar. The Real McCoy of the title derives from the advertising slogan of a 19th-century whisky distiller.
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