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Behind so many words we use without thinking are real people with a story to tell. This compendium contains the most familiar and the more unusual eponyms as well as the stories that surround them, from the hoover and sandwich to the yale and balaclava.
- Author
- Scholl, Andrew
- Publisher
- NTC/Contemporary Pub. Co
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781854796424
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Language
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