163. Rhino Borked Guy
The Allusionist
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Guy Fawkes - The Big Bag Bogeyman
Guy Fawkes didn't go by the name Guy Fawkes. He was just a bit of a beard that happened to be caught, caught with his matches in his pocket. This eponym, though, I'm wondering whether it partly caught on because it's such a small word, three letters, and it's basically a consonant and a breath. And therefore it's easy to assimilate and it'seasy to use often. So I'm wonderingwhether some aesthetic of the word made it common because it could have been so different.
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