A false etymology (fake etymology or pseudo-etymology) is a false theory about the origin or derivation of a specific word or phrase. When a false etymology...
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become archaic or obsolete. Folk/popular etymology may also refer to a popular false belief about the etymology of a word or phrase that does not lead to...
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meaning False cognate – Words that look or sound alike, but are not related False etymology – Popular, but false belief about word origins Folk etymology –...
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intended to be exhaustive. This is a list of common contemporary false etymologies for English words. Crap: The word "crap" did not originate as a back-formation...
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Wop (section False etymologies)
refer to the younger Italian male immigrants arriving in America. One false etymology or backronym of wop is that it is an acronym for "without passport"...
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Jesus H. Christ (section False etymology)
above is the most likely origin of the "H", there are other popular false etymologies. One commonly held origin is as an initial for the name "Harold",...
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False cognates are pairs of words that seem to be cognates because of similar sounds and meaning, but have different etymologies; they can be within the...
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a shared etymology have in some instances resulted in 'bi-directional false friends': Note that die See means 'sea', and thus is not a false friend. The...
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Mullet (haircut) (section False etymology)
Rocker". On Slate's Decoder Ring podcast, Willa Paskin discussed the etymology of the term, noting that Oxford English Dictionary credited the Australian...
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Backronym (category Etymology)
either serious or humorous intent, or they may be a type of false etymology or folk etymology. The word is a portmanteau of back and acronym. A normal acronym...
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Spoonerism (section False etymology)
reply as the show ran out of time. Spoonerisms are used sometimes in false etymologies. For example, according to linguist Ghil'ad Zuckermann, some wrongly...
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Jaromir (section False etymology)
Jaromír, Jaromir, Jaroměr is a Slavic male given name. Jaromír is a West Slavic given name composed of two stems jaro and mír. The meaning is not definite:...
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Fuck (redirect from Etymology of fuck)
evidence, and has been proven false, but has persisted in oral and literary traditions for many years. Another legendary etymology, first made popular by the...
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Several etymologies have been proposed for the word OK or okay. The majority can be easily classified as false etymologies, or possibly folk etymologies. H...
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Cognate (redirect from Cognate (etymology))
Linguistics portal Homology (biology) Indo-European vocabulary False friend False etymology Folk etymology Word family Crystal, David, ed. (2011). "cognate". A...
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Nor- (section False etymology)
response to a review of A.M. Woolman, Gaddum retracted his support for this etymology. Woolman believed that "N ohne Radikal" was a German mnemonic and likely...
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sāam báan (三板), literally "three planks", but this is likely to be a false etymology. A possible Austronesian origin of the word has been suggested, as...
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"blockhead". An ancient false etymology derives κοάλεμος from κοέω (koeō) "perceive" and ἡλεός (ēleos) "distraught, crazed". This etymology is not established...
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known to Irish speakers in Munster only as an English word. A famous false etymology states that the word stems from the supposed perception that the Irish...
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broadened to include any Roman Catholic. A colloquial but possibly false etymology also attributes the origin of the anti-Irish slur to the prevalence...
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Sope Creek (section False etymology)
sidewalks in 2013. The origin of the creek's name is not documented. A false etymology has evolved. There are conflicting authorities supporting at least...
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1990-2017 are coded FLSTF, and FLFB (& FLFBS) from 2018. An oft-repeated false etymology claims that the name comes from a contraction of Fat Man and Little...
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Top sirloin (section Etymology)
the term evolved to become aloyau or faux-filet. An often quoted false etymology suggests that sirloin comes from the knighting by an English king (various...
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examples List of common false etymologies of English words The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology A Dictionary of English Etymology This disambiguation...
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1950s. This game is sometimes also called "Kalahari", possibly by false etymology from the Kalahari desert in Namibia.[citation needed] For most of its...
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sometimes used as a backronym for the words Hobby Amateur. A number of folk etymologies about the supposed origin of "ham" radio evolved over the years since...
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the 18th and 19th centuries. This etymology is considered false by modern Celtic linguists, who follow the etymology proposed by Johann Kaspar Zeuss in...
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Monkey wrench (section False etymologies)
wrench's jaws to that of a monkey's face, and that the many convoluted folk etymologies that later developed were baseless. Before the Bahco/Johansson/Crescent...
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