If podcasting was called currycasting it would eponym and a portmanteau

Today’s word is a -onym word, a word that ends in -onym. -Onym words usually describe words or are related to names and words. Such as homonym, synonym.

I have collected tons of these -onym words and I trying to figure out the best way to make a podcast or maybe ten podcasts out of them.

For now let’s just look at today’s -onym word, eponym. An eponym is a name that is derived from a person’s name. For example the element Einsteinium is an eponym. It is named after Albert Einstein.

An eponym can also be the person for whom something is named. If podcasting was called CurryCasting then Adam would be an eponym. I guess with Curry Castle he is an eponym anyhow.

A few years ago the band R.E.M. release a hit album named Eponymous. Which I guess is a play on the common Self Titled Album title.

Thank you Robert (“dont poke the Internet with a pencil”) Cooper. I appreciate you pointing out my RSS typo. Check our Robert’s site devoted the free and open source operating system known as Linux at http://www.screaming-penguin.com.