Chrysti The Wordsmith: Eponym Fun - 2

Greetings I'm Christie the wordsmith Honda Petri Jacuzzi Frisbie nicotine The common element behind these monikers is that they're all eponym or inventions discoveries or corporations named after their founders. Hundreds of English words have entered our parlance as eponym while the names of these inventions and corporations are household terms. The humans behind them are nearly forgotten. The namesake of the petri dish. A simple glass container indispensable in microbiology labs is the 19th century German physician and inventor Julius R. Petri Candido Jacuzzi loaned his name to the language after he and his brother developed a line of submersible pumps in California in the 1940s Candido modified his pump designed to fit a home whirlpool bath for his arthritic son. This therapeutic bath was later marketed in drugstores and eventually on TV's queen for a day as the Jacuzzi portable bath. Nicotine was named after John Nico a French diplomat who introduced the tobacco plant to his homeland in the 15th

60s. Nicole received some tobacco seeds and snuff from a Portuguese sailor after Nikko presented these novel items to the Royal Court of France. The plant was christened nicotiana tobacco in his honor. Thousands of such eponym Zin live in our language. Most major car brands are eponym. Chrysler Honda dog. As are many names in our kitchens Birdseye Gerber And Reynolds you can discover their stories on line or in any eponym dictionary. I'm Christie the wordsmith Christie the wordsmith a sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Zoot enterprises a high tech firm in Bozeman Montana offering challenging careers and innovative solutions for the financial services industry. Zoot web dot com.