Verb in honor of the great footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic. in Swedish att zlatanera is to dominate.
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C-Section (Caesarean section): Speculation that the Roman dictator Julius Caesar was born by the method now known as C-section is apparently false.
Caesarean section - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Roman Lex Regia (ruling law), later the Lex Caesarea (imperial law), of Numa Pompilius (715–673 BCE),[SUP][11]](Caesarean section - Wikipedia)[/SUP] required the child of a mother dead in childbirth to be cut from her womb.[SUP][12]](Caesarean section - Wikipedia)[/SUP] This seems to have begun as a religious requirement that mothers not be buried pregnant,[SUP][13]](Caesarean section - Wikipedia)[/SUP] and to have evolved into a way of saving the fetus, with Roman practice requiring a living mother to be in her tenth month of pregnancy before resorting to the procedure, reflecting the knowledge that she could not survive the delivery.[SUP][14]](Caesarean section - Wikipedia)[/SUP] Speculation that the Roman dictator Julius Caesar was born by the method now known as C-section is apparently false.[SUP][15]](Caesarean section - Wikipedia)[/SUP] Although Caesarean sections were performed in Roman times, no classical source records a mother surviving such a delivery,[SUP][12]](Caesarean section - Wikipedia)[/SUP][SUP][16]](Caesarean section - Wikipedia)[/SUP] – the earliest recorded survival dates to the 12th century scholar and physician Maimonides (see Commentary to Mishnah Bekhorot 8:2).
The term has also been explained as deriving from the verb caedere, to cut, with children delivered this way referred to as caesones. Pliny the Elder refers to a certain Julius Caesar (an ancestor of the famous Roman statesman) as ab utero caeso, “cut from the womb” giving this as an explanation for the cognomen “Caesar” which was then carried by his descendents [SUP][12]](Caesarean section - Wikipedia)[/SUP] Notably, the Oxford English Dictionary does not credit a derivation from “caedere”, and defines Caesarean birth as “the delivery of a child by cutting through the walls of the abdomen when delivery cannot take place in the natural way, as was done in the case of Julius Caesar”.[SUP][17]](Caesarean section - Wikipedia)[/SUP]
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SPOONERISM:
Switching letters between words to give sentence a completely new meaning. For example:
A lack of pies - A pack of lies
It is customary to kiss the bride - It is kisstomary to CUSS the bride.
It is after Reverand Spooner. He used to make a lot of such mistakes. So much so that a new word was made after his name. The second example I gave above is what he actually said to a couple during their wedding.
Paw Prints Anecdotes: William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930)Born in 1844 in London, Spooner became an Anglican priest and a scholar.
The Rev. W.A. Spooner was reputed to have had a dreadful habit of confusing his message in the process of giving it:
At a wedding he told the groom, “It is kistomary to cuss the bride.”
Calling on the dean of Christ Church he asked the secretary, “Is the bean dizzy?”
Giving the eulogy at a clergyman’s funeral, he praised his departed colleague as a "shoving leopard to his flock."
In a sermon he warned his congregation, “There is no peace in a home where a dinner swells,” meaning , of course, “where a sinner dwells.”
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Thomas Crapper = Crapper and Crap. LOL
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Did anyone mention 'mankaded'??
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Did anyone mention 'mankaded'??
no. what is it?
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As a bowler enters his delivery stride, the non-striking batsman usually 'backs up'. This means he leaves his popping crease and walks towards the other end of the wicket so that it will take him less time to reach the other end if he and his batting partner choose to attempt a run. Sometimes a batsman, whilst backing up, leaves the popping crease before the bowler has actually delivered the ball. Where this has happened, the bowler may attempt to run the non-striking batsman out. Getting a batsman out this way, though legal, is generally considered to be against the spirit of the game as the non-striker usually accidentally leaves the crease. By convention, the bowler is meant to warn the batsman to stay in his crease rather than to take his wicket. If he fails, and the batsman gets home, the delivery is called a dead ball. When it has happened in first- class cricket, it has been controversial. Vinoo Mankad The most famous example of this method of dismissal involved the Indian bowler Vinoo Mankad. It occurred during India's tour of Australia on 13 December 1947 in the second Testat Sydney. Mankad ran out Bill Brownwhen, in the act of delivering the ball, he held on to it and removed the bails with Brown well out of his crease. This was the second time Mankad had dismissed Brown in this fashion on the tour, having already done it in an earlier match against an Australian XI. On that occasion he had warned Brown once before running him out. The Australian press accused Mankad of being unsportsmanlike, although some Australians, including Don Bradman, the Australian captain at the time, defended Mankad's actions. Since this incident, a batsman dismissed in this fashion is (informally) said to have been "Mankaded".
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This particular literary concept is called eponym.
There are so many but lets see how many I remember from top of my head:
The word Europe came from the Greek mythology Europa, a phonetician woman abducted by Zeus. The story and image of Europa the woman plays a very interesting role in post WWII reconstruction of Europe and coming of European Union.
The term Machiavellian which is a synonymous with cunning, duplicitous and scheming behaviour derives from Italian renaissance writer and diplomat Niccolo Machviavelli's book *The Prince.
The word* Victorian** is distillation of culture, traditions, arts, lifestyle and moral views of the people living at the time of Queen Victoria's reign (1837–1901). Same with the terms describing popular historical era such as Elizabethan Era (Queen Elizabeth I) and Georgian Period.
**Downs Syndrome **is named after John Landon Down who I believe was a British physician.
Asperger syndrome is named after an Austrian physician Hans Asperger
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Falkland Islands **is named after Anthony Cary 5th Viscount of Falkland.
Virtually all Australian major cities and towns are named after British aristocracy Melbourn, **named after William Lamb who was also known as Lord Melbourn. **Sydney is named after Lord Sydney also known as Thomas Townshend. Hobart **is named after Lord Hobart. **Brisbane is named after Sir Thomas Brisbane.
There is a place in Isreal that's named after British Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour who came up with Balfour Declaration in 1917 supporting the establishment of Jewish homeland in Palestine. I think the placed is called Balfouriya.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think Abbotabad is named after Sir James Abbot who was a British army officer and colonial administrator.
Victoria, London, named after Queen Victoria.
Oh God I can go on and on about the names of places named after British aristocracy.