Things Unexpectedly Named After People

Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People by smcl on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:08AM (#39465951)

Same in Czech, tbh it's possible that English is the outlier here

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Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People by RMPR on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:26AM (#39466107)

English is definitely not an outlier. In french it's Rayon X

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Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People by smcl on Thursday February 22, 2024 @10:39AM (#39468677)

I had a moment to check and it’s actually interesting - looks like the world is split in two. Looking at a few languages closer to home (for me) we have:

X-ray-like: English, Spanish, Italian, French, Romanian, Turkish, Portuguese

Röntgen-like: German, Danish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Polish, Russian, Hungarian

There’s way more of each than I’ve listed, of course. I just picked a few languages

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Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People by ashildr on Thursday February 22, 2024 @08:13PM (#39475651)

X-Strahlen (X-Rays) is the name Röntgen invented for his discovery :)

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Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People by artogahr on Thursday March 07, 2024 @06:46AM (#39627884)

People in Turkey definitely don't use X-ray, they use Röntgen. Same for Azerbaijan.

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