How very odd: my W.otD. has no quotation at the bottom of today's mailing . It reads:

"The arrogant nephew and his two drawcansir uncles appeared ..."
Washington Irving; The Widow's Tale; Defiance Democrat (Ohio);
Oct 13, 1855.

Eponyms -- AWAD's perennial favorites -- make their appearance once again.
We've had 38 weeks of them over the last 10 years. Eponyms are words derived
from people's names. There is a reason for their popularity: where else can
you a find a whole story in just one word? This week's selection features
words named after people famous and infamous, real and fictional, well-known
and relatively obscure. This week we'll see words derived from characters in
Greek mythology, French royalty, US law, and English fiction.
-Anu Garg
anu@wordsmith.org

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