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appellation call			Thus, too, are characteristics associated with the archetypal bearer of a name (Jezebel, Walter Mitty, Sandwich, Cardigan) transferred as eponymy to apply to a set of humans or objects, in the formation of a common word. Names, derivational morphology, and Old English gender by Colman, Fran / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies To be sure, other disciplines are much more eponymy prone than is economics. On eponymy in economics by Cole, Julio H. / Independent Review But as Stephen Stigler's Law of Eponymy (1980) suggests--inventions are never named after their inventor--there is always a predecessor, and an unfair amount of attention goes to the superstars. THE GOLDEN AGE OF NOBEL ECONOMISTS by van Dalen, Hendrik P. / American Economist			ephemeris epic epicenter epicurean epidemic epigrammatic epigrammatical Epilepsy epilogus epiphany Episcopacy episode epistle Epistles epistolize epistula epistulae epithet epitoma epitome epitomization epitomize epitomized epoch eponym eponymy equability equable equably equal equal distribution of weight Equal Employment Opportunity Commission equal footing equal in effect equal in extent equal in force equal in measure equal in power equal in scope equal in significance equal in space equal in time equal in value equal opportunity equal part Equal Pay Act of 1963 Equal Protection equal protection of the law Equal Rights Amendment equal share equal to			EPOM Epomidiostomum EPOMM EPON EPON Epona Epona Epona Eponine Éponine epontol eponychia eponychium eponychium eponym eponym eponym eponymic eponymic eponymic eponymism Eponymist eponymous eponymous eponymous eponymously eponymously Eponyms Eponyms Eponyms eponymy epoophorectomy epoophoron epoophoron epoophoron epoöphoron epoöphoron epoöphoron EPOP EPOPA epopee epopee Epoprostenol Epoprostenol Epoprostenol sodium Epoprostenol sodium Epopt Epopteia Epopteia EPOR Eporedia EPOrg epornithic epornithology EPORS EPortfolio Research and Development Community epos epos epos EPoS-Linked Virgin Information System EPOSE

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