Historic People That Became Everyday Words
The Ancient Names in our Vocabulary
9 min readAug 31, 2021
The more you look back to the past, the more you start to see the present everywhere you look. Nowhere is this truer than in language. What’s always been a source of particular interest to me is the journey words go on through the passage of time. Names that become verbs. Concrete nouns that become proper nouns. Names that become…
