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Showing posts with label folk etymology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label folk etymology. Show all posts
Monday, August 25, 2025

Tall tales and folk etymologies

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My master's degree is in historical linguistics, and one of the first things I learned was that it's tricky to tell if two words are...
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Tuesday, October 3, 2023

What's in a name?

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In the way that viral nonsense always goes, every few months I see a resurgence of a post (actually a collection of similar posts) which tak...
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Gordon Bonnet
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