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Some words that have come from the names of people or places:

  1. American Indians
  2. Swiss cheese
  3. The Nobel Prize
  4. The Nuremberg Laws
  5. The Smithsonian Institution
  6. French fries
  7. The Midas touch
  8. A Trojan horse
  9. An Oedipus complex
  10. The United States of America
  11. The state of Virginia
  12. The city and state of New York
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