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What's Who?: A Dictionary of Things Named After People and the People They are Named After

What's Who?: A Dictionary of Things Named After People and the People They are Named After

by RogerJones (Author)

Synopsis

This book is an enjoyable reference book, which looks at eponymy, the naming of things after people.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 293
 Publisher: Matador
Published: 30 Nov 2008
ISBN 10: 1848760477
ISBN 13: 9781848760479

Author Bio
Roger Jones was born in 1939 to Welsh parents. Brought up in Yorkshire on the edge of Ilkley Moor, he was educated at Uppingham School and Jesus College, Oxford. He spent ten years as teacher of English to foreign learners in London, Athens and Oxford and twelve years as smallholder in Wales, breeding sheep and goats, before working for fifteen years as English translator for the Bureau Interprofessionnel des Vins de Bourgogne (the body which represents the Burgundy wine industry). In between times he has worked as a jazz musician, furniture restorer and fencing contractor. He is now retired and devoted full-time to writing.