I LOVE this. NPR's Morning Edition did a story about people whose last names became nouns. Like Henry Shrapnel, Jules Leotard and Lord Cardigan. (btw Lord Cardigan is an awesome name)
My maiden name was a plural noun. Maybe I'll do something so famous that my married name "vollers" will become a noun...
...Probably not. But a girl can dream.
Read about all the famous noun people here.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
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How cool! I read Thomas Costain's books about the Plantagenets a few years ago and learned about a guy with the last name Blanket. Guess what he's responsible for?
My only concern: people didn't cover themselves at night before the middle ages??? Maybe those things just didn't have names.
I know! I once read somewhere that Shakespeare invented the word "table." So what did they call it before Shakespeare?
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