False etymology
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title:
False etymology
text:
A false etymology is a false theory about the origin or derivation of a specific word or phrase. When a false etymology becomes a popular belief in a cultural/linguistic community, it is a folk etymology. Nevertheless, folk/popular etymology may also refer to the process by which a word or phrase is changed because of a popular false etymology. To disambiguate the usage of the term "folk/popular etymology", Ghil'ad Zuckermann proposes a clear-cut distinction between the derivational-only popular
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Popular, but false belief about word origins
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_etymology
date created:
2002-01-07T11:45:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T18:44:24Z
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