In 1932 Ole Kirk Kristiansen founded a company to make wooden toys. He later named the company LEGO, combining the words leg godt, Danish for “play well.” In 1949 LEGO began producing “Automatic Binding Bricks.”

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9 Things You Didn’t Know Were Named After People

The etymology of words can be complicated. In English many words derive from ancient languages such as Latin (candle) and Greek (biology) or are borrowed from other languages (guru, cigar, karaoke). Some common words, however, actually derive their names from people, though that source is often