Archive for March 22nd, 2008
Must be cold
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eponym
A word or name derived from the name of a person. The words atlas, bowdlerize, and Turing machine are eponyms. # A person whose name is or is thought to be the source of the name of something.
bowdlerize
bowdlerize, to censor or expurgate from a literary work those passages considered to be indecent or blasphemous. The word comes from Dr Thomas Bowdler, who published in 1818 The Family Shakespeare, ‘in which those words or expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family’ . Many oaths and sexually suggestive speeches were cut, and even entire characters like Doll Tearsheet in Henry IV, Part One. Similarly bowdlerized editions of Gulliver’s Travels and Moby‐Dick have been produced for children.
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