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Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People by yau8edq12i on Thursday February 22, 2024 @01:56AM (#39464028)
Funny enough, the French word for a garbage can is also named after someone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Poubelle the prefect who made the use of garbage containers mandatory in Paris.
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Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People by Kwpolska on Thursday February 22, 2024 @02:47AM (#39464354)
Continuing with the trend, the Polish word for outhouse is sławojka, named after Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, a prime minister who is responsible for making them mandatory in the countryside in the 1920s, and apparently touring the country to check how sanitary they are. https://pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82awojka
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Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People by carlob on Thursday February 22, 2024 @05:53AM (#39465406)
Pretty much the same can be said in Italian about public urinals and the emperor Vespasian(o).
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