10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POPULAR ETYMOLOGY»
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popular etymology in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Studies in
Etymology and Etiology: With Emphasis on ...
There is however another subject to which the General Public applies the name
etymology, a subject which philologists often call Popular Etymology. This subject
is one quite without value [...]. ¶ It will thus be seen that it is not at all a question ...
David L. Gold, Antonio Lillo Buades, Félix Rodríguez González, 2009
For present purposes what matter are the associations ascribed to that word in
popular consciousness: its popular etymology. That is not to suggest that
ascertaining the scientific etymology of a word is of no moment, but popular
etymologies ...
Ian Richard Macpherson, Ralph John Penny, 1997
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An Introduction to Romance Linguistics, Its Schools and Scholars
Thus, in all Gillieron's works, and particularly in UAbeille, we find him at every
step calling in the principle of popular etymology to explain either the changes in
old-established words or new formations, which the need for clarity and for the ...
Iorgu Iordan, John Orr, Rebecca Posner, 1970
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Language History, Language Change, and Language ...
Historical linguists refer to such historically incorrect etymologies as folk
etymology or popular etymology. Folk etymology, because it does not depend on
knowledge of the history of words, is not necessarily limited to words that
originally were ...
Hans Henrich Hock, Brian D. Joseph, 2009
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Personal and literary memorials
REMARKS ON POPULAR ETYMOLOGY. One whose name, were 1 at liberty to
quote it, would add authority to his assertion, declared to me that Locke, in his
Essay on Human Understanding, has used the word idea in fourteen different ...
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Language and Meaning, Studies in Hebrew Language and ...
It will be convenient if we begin by separating off two major types of operation,
one of which we shall call scholarly etymology and the other popular etymology.
Our subject in the first place will be scholarly etymology, and we shall return to ...
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English Word-formation: A History of Research, 1960-1995
(b) Back-formation vs. popular etymology While popular etymology is concerned
with the interpretation of word meanings, trying to support unfamiliar words with
familiar ones which bear a resemblance to them, back-formation creates what are
...
... 149, 169 phytonymy, 80, 92 pictorial representations, x, 25, 60-3, 68, 79, 121
pitch contour, of interjections and conversational formulas, 144 place names see
toponymy political change, and etymology, 41-3 polysemy, 2 'popular etymology',
...
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Forgotten Paths:
Etymology and the Allegorical Mindset
against “popular” etymology. In his 1852 paper on “german Folk etymology,”
Förstemann proposed that we distinguish between gelehrte Etymologie (
scholarly etymology) and Volksetymologie (“popular etymology,” mostly used to
name ...
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Early Medieval Plant Studies
Change of Elements: Obscuration and Popular Etymology Obscuration and
popular etymology are two contrasting tendencies.22 Obscured compounds lose
their morphologic and semantic transparency and thus also their motivation;
popular ...
Carole Patricia Biggam, Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey. Symposium, 2003
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POPULAR ETYMOLOGY»
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Language Arts: Sadly, Marina Orlova has retired popular etymology series Hot For Words in favor of being Hot For Other Things (nutrition at the ... «NewMediaRockstars, Mar 15»
Why has your street got its name?
Popular etymology interprets the name as 'wine market' (in Old English 'ceap' means 'market'). Today Wincheap is the main approach road ... «Canterbury Times, Sep 14»
Primitive European Religions
Incidentally, popular etymology connected 'god' with 'good'--as exemplified by the corruption: "God be with you" into "Goodbye.". «Black Voice News, Apr 14»
Implement Common Core Standards without delay
In popular etymology the word standard means, "stand hard." Originally, it meant "standard of measure ... always either expressly or by ... «Hartford Courant, Mar 14»
Tatev Monastery to Receive Restorations for 1111th Anniversary
Popular etymology includes a legend telling of an event that is tied to the construction of the main church, where an apprentice secretly climbs ... «Asbarez Armenian News, Nov 13»
Maui, Pacific Literature, and the Aloha Spirit
A popular etymology discussed in Hawaii is that "haole"-- the word used to describe mainland Americans -- literally means, "no breath. «KCET, Jul 13»
Mythology and the Biblical Perspective, Part 2
A popular etymology, which connected the name with the Assyrian summat, "dove," seems to have first started the identification of the historical ... «The Virginian-Pilot, Oct 12»
The Tale of the Tower - Part1
The Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible says “a popular etymology [for Babel or Babylon] replaced the original meaning of the name.” The key to ... «Christian Post, Sep 12»
Asceticism and Bad American Religion
Indeed, at least in its popular etymology, the word religion itself has an ascetical connotation (religare "to bind fast.") Just as sin is a human constant, so too is the ... «Acton Institute, Aug 12»
From Riddle to Twittersphere: David Crystal tells the story of English …
14 Bridegroom Popular etymology (11th c). 15 Arse An impolite word (11th c). 16 Swain A poetic expression (12th c). 17 Pork An elegant word ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 11»
