File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9712, message 174


Date: Sun, 28 Dec 1997 17:27:46 -0500
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: Henry Miller and the Academy Who Doesn't Read Him



>
>        I don't know the answer to the first, unfortunately (definitely
>clue the rest of us in when you find out), but I believe "eponymous" is
>what you're looking for in the second (though I don't have a dictionary
>handy to check), though now that I think of it, that's for words taken from
>people's names, such as a diesel engine or a bowie knife.
>
>Ciao,
>Reg
>
Romulus, it says here is the _eponym_ for Rome, that is the person from
whom the name of the thing is thought to have derived. Eponymous is thus
"Of, relating to, or constituting an aponnym." So Kleenex, by my read,
doesn't make the cut.

On the first question, does it relate to the (nonsensical unless a
sub-literate like John Wayne says it) "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta
do." g




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