Michael J Henshaw

• Master of Arts
• Lecturer at Hokkaido University

@HHenriikka asked on Twitter: Why is it Foucauldian and not Foucaultian? Here's an answer: I have done meticulous research on this with 6 different mega-corpora. Foucauldian is used nearly 5x more often than Foucaultian. Root of orthographic change: Namesakes ending with a grapho- / phonological vowel tend to adjust spelling to accommodate the suf...

A response to a Tweet about Ibn Sina's appropriate adjective.

The philosophers who get the most adjectives made from their names.

I was inspired to look for words from the EAWL that can be hurtful for some people to hear. Since these words are largely academic, I was curious under what conditions these kind of words might be used.

4 mega-corpora were searched for eponymous adjectives, then female figures were isolated for analysis.

An overview of the contents and subdivisions of the OHEC, a corpus created for the English education of biomedical researchers. 653 Original research articles (RAs) were selected at random from the years 2013-2018 from academic journals which had been recommended by students and teaching staff from the Graduate Schools of Veterinary Medicine and In...

1 tab of overview and 3 tabs of data from the KOBS to provide an sample for the full wordlist.

Help for English learners to describe data presentations.

Sortable list of 150 animals (mostly mammals) with information including diet, trophic level, range, group size, activity patterns, IUCN status, and more.

Animals have common names, like 'horse'. But when specialists want to communicate with precision, they have technical terms for different life stages and conditions. For example, a young female horse is called a 'filly', while an adult castrated horse is called a 'gelding'. This list of 27 animals will quickly provide the right name for the right o...

There are many ways to describe tables, charts, and other figures. Here are some common phrases that people use--especially recommended for oral presentations.

This is an update and supplement to a table from Guns, Germs and Steel (Diamond 1997). Only 6 major large animals have been domesticated in world history. Their current global distribution is the result of human migration and trade, not independent domestication events. Additionally, all but the equids are even-toed ungulates, indicating there is a...

Introduction Everyone has a name. Few have an adjective. A person needs to have made quite an impact on the culture for writers to find it necessary to adjectivize their name. An eponymous adjective of a famous figure 1 is an information-rich word that serves as a shorthand to those who are familiar with the essence of that figure's thoughts, deeds...

List of most referenced individuals in the English language academic tradition.

A side-take on the main list of eponymous adjectives. May generate interesting but unyet-seen connections.

A sub-list of the philosophy entries from the Eponymous Adjective Word List. Please download the PDF as the 'file view' version does not contain active links.

A sub-list of the science / engineering entries from the Eponymous Adjective Word List. Please download the PDF as the 'file view' version does not contain active links.

Sub-list of the Eponymous Adjectives Word List. Please download the PDF since the 'file view' document does not contain active links.

The EAWL is a complete list, ranked by frequency, of the top 300+ adjectives derived from names of famous figures. Please download PDF; hyperlinks don't work on ResearchGate's file view.

The most frequently printed name-adjectives of famous figures are organized into a visual metaphor based on the periodic table of elements. It is intended to stimulate cross-disciplinary dialogue and pedagogy. note: this is old data (c. 2016) and only draws from one corpus (Google Books via Ngram Viewer). Contact me for newest data that incorporat...