WHAT COMMON NOUNS DERIVE FROM PROPER NOUNS ДИЈАНА

WHAT COMMON NOUNS DERIVE FROM PROPER NOUNS? ДИЈАНА ТРАЈЧЕВСКА APRIL, 2016

COMMON NOUNS VS. PROPER NOUNS • A PROPER NOUN HAS TWO DISTINCTIVE FEATURES: 1)IT WILL NAME A SPECIFIC (USUALLY A ONE-OF-A-KIND) ITEM 2) IT WILL BEGIN WITH A CAPITAL LETTER NO MATTER WHERE IT OCCURS IN A SENTENCE • COMMON NOUNS NAME PLACES, PEOPLE, THINGS OR IDEAS THAT ARE NOT SPECIFIC. SINCE THESE NOUNS ARE NOT NAMING ANYTHING SPECIFIC, THEY DO NOT NEED TO START WITH A CAPITAL LETTER UNLESS THEY BEGIN A SENTENCE.

EXAMPLES • SANDWICH - (FROM JOHN MONTAGU, THE 4 TH EARL OF SANDWICH, 17181792), AN ENGLISH ARISTOCRAT WHO DID NOT INVENT THE PRACTICE OF SLAPPING MEAT BETWEEN BREAD AND EATING IT, BUT HE DID INTRODUCE IT TO ENGLAND LED OTHERS TO ASK FOR THEIR BREAD & MEAT LIKE SANDWICH'S. • LYNCH - MOB KILLING; LYNCH SOMEBODY IF A CROWD OF PEOPLE LYNCH SOMEBODY WHOM THEY CONSIDER GUILTY OF A CRIME, THEY CAPTURE THEM, DO NOT ALLOW THEM TO HAVE A TRIAL IN COURT, AND KILL THEM ILLEGALLY, USUALLY BY HANGING (FROM CHARLES LYNCH, A JURIST FROM VIRGINIA).

EXAMPLES • MACADAM - (FROM JOHN LOUDON, MCADAM, 1756 -1836) A ROADWAY CONSTRUCTION METHOD USING LAYERS OF AGGREGATE BOUND TOGETHER WITH TAR, ALSO KNOWN AS TAR MACADAM, OR TARMAC. • ALGORITHM - A TERM USED IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (FROM THE NAME OF A PERSIAN MATHEMATICIAN). • CARDIGAN - AN ITEM OF CLOTHING (NAMED AFTER THE EARL OF CARDIGAN). • MACKINTOSH- WATERPROOF RAINCOAT (AFTER CHARLES MCINTOSH, ITS INVENTOR).

EXAMPLES • DENIM - A SUPPOSED CONTRACTION OF TOILE DE NÎMES (THE FRENCH TOWN WHERE THIS MATERIAL WAS ORIGINALLY MANUFACTURED BEFORE LEVI'S TRADEMARKED IT) IN EARLY 1900 • BOYCOTT - MEANING TO REFUSE TO BUY, USE OR TAKE PART IN SOMETHING AS A WAY OF PROTESTING (FROM CAPTAIN CHARLES BOYCOTT, A LAND AGENT DURING THE IRISH LAND WAR). • DAHLIA - A LARGE BRIGHTLY COLORED GARDEN FLOWER, OFTEN SHAPED LIKE A BALL (NAMED AFTER SWEDISH BOTANIST ANDERS DAHL).

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