Eponyms

• Charles Boycott tried to collect high rents from poor Irish tenant farmers and was silently ignored by them all.    boycott

• Amelia Bloomer, an American feminist, was ridiculed for publicly wearing these baggy short  pants instead of a dress.   bloomers

• Adolf Sax invented this bass wind instrument.   saxophone

• Ambrose Burnside, a Uni;on general in the Civil War, was famous for these whiskers he grew on the sides of his face.   sideburns

• Neil Melba, an op;era singer,  decided she likes burnt toast and this crisp toast was added to menus in her honor.   Melba toast

• Louis Brail, a Frenchman who waas blind, invented this system of writing with raised dots at the age of 15.   Braille

from: Scott Foresman everyday spelling