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folk etymology

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1. etymology

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Folk Etymologies - The New Inquiry
Bridegrooms, Bonfires, and Woodchucks: Folk Etymologies in English - ThoughtCo
BTS named their new album Arirang. What is so striking about their choice? - The Guardian
20 Fall Harvest Words and Their Origins - Mental Floss
The Journey of the Word “Artichoke” Shows Folk Etymology at Its Most Creative - Tikvah Ideas
The Snopes Guide to Fake Etymology - Snopes
In a Word: A Crayfish Is Not a Fish - The Saturday Evening Post
Some well-known etymologies are too good to be true - The Economist
‘Woolgathering’ and other not-so-idle pursuits - The Christian Science Monitor
Word of the Week: Duffer. Everyone should know a bit of golf terminology - The Berkshire Eagle
Etymology gleanings for July 2018 - OUPblog
What the ‘trolly-lolly’ of gibberish means for language - Aeon
5 More Russian Words With Unexpected Origins - Университет ИТМО
Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz. Here's a look at how it got its name - NPR
The Curious Etymology Of The Elements - Hackaday
Are You an Etymologist? - National Review
What it means to 'root' for the home team - The Christian Science Monitor
Word Origins the Internet Got Completely Wrong - Snopes
In a Word: Groundhog, Meet the Woodchuck - The Saturday Evening Post
The people of the mist - OUPblog
The Oxford Etymologist waxes emotional: a few rambling remarks on fear - OUPblog
The Place Where You Live: Spuyten Duyvil Creek - Living on Earth
‘Kangaroo court’ has a peculiarly American past - The Christian Science Monitor
In a Word: A Sweet and Cynical Honeymoon - The Saturday Evening Post
Wrenching an etymology out of a monkey - OUPblog
The Bug in the Computer Bug Story - JSTOR Daily
Front page news: the Oxford Etymologist harrows an international brothel - OUPblog
The case for basket cases and other offenses - Claremont COURIER
7 Words in English You Didn’t Know Came From Polish - Culture.pl
Etymologists at War with a Flower: Foxglove - OUPblog
REVIEW: German Folk Horror Hagazussa - Crooked Marquee
Up at Harwich and back home to the west via Skellig - OUPblog
The psalm says ‘apple,’ but it was ‘pupil’ of the eye - The Christian Science Monitor
How the state of Oregon got its name - KGW
There’s nothing rude about the word ‘titbit’ - The Spectator
Mame Fay: Stories From Troy’s Red Light District - New York Almanack
The quintessential American condiment? Ketchup wasn’t even born in the US - South China Morning Post
Auburn won’t say if black students will be punished for anti-white slurs - The College Fix
16 Buggy Ways to Say Mosquito - Mental Floss
The Surprising Stories Behind 50 Country Names - 24/7 Wall St.
This Oklahoma Town Is Older Than the State Itself - WorldAtlas
Happy name day to all Gregory, Gregorios, Gregori and Margaritas - Parikiaki
Maslenitsa, Russian carnival - Times of Malta
What it means to be ‘Flip’ - Inquirer.net
SAY WHA? - The Washington Post
Senate okays domestic violence bill amid opposition outcry - Dawn
Place name of the week: Troon - An Truthail - The Scotsman
Kerala Renamed Keralam - Tathya
Admiral Nelson's Defiance Inspired the Saying “To Turn a Blind Eye” - Ancient Origins
Abandoned: The Last Remnants Of Doodletown, New York - The Ghost In My Machine
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'folk etymology'
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Misspellings - Typos
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Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
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