We rarely think about the origin of words, but it’s so interesting! It turns out that some were formed from the names and surnames of people who made a discovery, created a weapon, or composed a culinary recipe! Words-eponyms are linguistic monuments denoting an object to which a personal name has been transferred: the name of a method in science, a disease in medicine, an invention in technology...

Read! And you will learn that whatman paper is not a piece of paper, but an English industrialist, riding breeches is not a model of trousers, but a French general, and diesel is not a piston engine, but the name of the inventor!