What’s in a name? As it relates to persons, the question can evoke some perfectly straight answers such as Baker or Taylor, or remote paternity of,say, a Jackson or a Fitzgerald. Or it may signify color ( White, Brown or Green), a place or a thing such as Stone, House or Foot. Hence, a good many surnames are taken directly from phenomena in the environment. Very exceptionally however, this process is reversed, when a particular person becomes so closely identified with a particular thing, a process, or whatever, that his or her name passes into the language as a word.
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Joseph Guillotin – He did not invent the world’s fastest haircut machine; he merely popularized it in France just as a whole lot of people were about to get de-lifed.. Dr Guillotin noted that noblemen were executed by sword, while peasants were hung, and suggested that it would be both more egalitarian and more merciful if all convicted criminals were decapitated. The first guillotine was a bargain at 300 francs, plus another 20 for a bag to catch the head… Read More:http://www.sleuthsayers.org/search/label/Word%20People
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