Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.
Frankenstein
was the name of the inventor of the monster, not the monster itself, but semantic change has caused a Frankenstein today to be Standard English for any sort of man-made monster, literal or figurative. In creating that committee, we created a Frankenstein that will eventually destroy the organization. Purists still insist on a Frankenstein(’s) monster in such uses.
