I NEED SOMEONE TO SUMMARIZE THIS ARTICLE PLEASE (Urgent) Some everyday words are

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I NEED SOMEONE TO SUMMARIZE THIS ARTICLE PLEASE (Urgent)

Some everyday words are actually based on people’s names. For example, the word sandwich originated when the Earl of Sandwich, a British nobleman who loved to play cards, became hungry during a game in 1762. Not wanting to stop playing, he asked a servant to bring him some roast beef between two pieces of toasted bread. The quick portable snack was soon called a sandwich. Another person whose name became a word is a Frenchman named Dr. Guillotin. During the French Revolution, he pleaded for a quicker, kinder way than hanging to execute criminals. The result was the guillotine, a machine with a heavy blade used to behead people. A third example comes from a 19th-century Irish landlord named Mr. Boycott. When he refused to lower the high rents he was charging, his tenants stopped speaking to him. Today, to boycott means to refuse to do business with a person or company.

James, H. (2009). The ambassadors. Rockville, MD: Serenity Publishers.

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An eponym is a person, place, or thing for whom or for which something is named, or believed to be named.IN the given article it is the specific case of "words derived from 'person's names' ".

Few popular examples of words were mentioned from history like

1)Sandwich

2)Boycott

3)Guillotine

British monarchs have become eponymous throughout the English-speaking world for time periods, fashions, etc.English can use either genitive case or attributive position to indicate the adjectival nature of the eponymous part of the term. (In other words, that part may be either possessive or non-possessive.)Political trends or movements often become eponymous with a government leader.So the gist of the passage lies around the relation between language and origin of words from the happenings in the surrounding world at all times.

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