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Provide a few English words that were actually derived from people?

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Here are 5 words to get you started: August (Augustus Caesar); boycott (Charles C. Boycott); caesarean section (Julius Caesar); lynch (William Lynch); and, masochism (Leopold von Sacher-Masoch). Here are 5 words to get you started: August (Augustus Caesar); boycott (Charles C. Boycott); caesarean section (Julius Caesar); lynch (William Lynch); and, masochism (Leopold von Sacher-Masoch).

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