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Folk etymology: alive and kicking in the 21st century

English Today, 2004
The author focuses on the approach to word origins widely known as ‘folk etymology’, which he regards as ‘alive and kicking in America's leading daily newspapers, duping many a gullible reader’. To do this, he considers the etymology of the phrase ‘so long’ when used to mean ‘good-bye’.
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Folk Etymology in Sigmund Freud, Christian Morgenstern, and Wallace Stevens

Critical Inquiry, 1979
1. The references to Atum and the passage in Genesis are taken from Frits Staal, "Oriental Ideas on the Origin of Language" (presidential address delivered at the American Oriental Society, Toronto, 12 April 1978), p. 3. There Staal refers to Nahum M. Sarna's Understanding Genesis (New York, 1970) for the Atum reference and to Ephraim A.
Samuel Jay Keyser, Alan Prince
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Orthographic Folk Etymological Nativisation: A Chinese Perspective

2016
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Folk Etymology in the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects

Aramaic Studies, 2018
Abstract Although folk etymology is a common linguistic phenomenon, it has hitherto hardly been touched upon in lexicological and other works related to varieties of Neo-Aramaic. The present article concerns twelve cases of folk etymology selected from some of the dialects of North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA), the largest and most variegated ...
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A Linguistic Approach to the Analysis of Folk Etymology

Lore and language, 2003
This article aims to give a brief description of folk etymology or false etymology from a linguistic point of view. The projected plan is to present a sample ofwords which have been modified under the influence of false derivation, or have in some way been altered from their original form or meaning by false analogy.
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Role play with large language models

Nature, 2023
Murray Shanahan
exaly  

Etymology of some folk phytonyms in Russian language

2020
The Youth of the 21st Century: Education, Science, Innovations : Proceedings of VII International Conference for Students, Postgraduates and Young Scientists, Vitebsk, December 11, 2020. - Vitebsk : Vitebsk State University named after P. M. Masherov, 2020. - P. 77-78. - Bibliogr.: p. 78 (4 nam.).
Agafonova, O., Kruchenkova, T.
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Algorithmic Folk Theories and Identity: How TikTok Users Co-Produce Knowledge of Identity and Engage in Algorithmic Resistance

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2021
Nazanin Andalibi
exaly  

Folk-etymology: Tow law [PDF]

Notes and Queries, 1927
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Folk theories of algorithms: Understanding digital irritation

Media, Culture and Society, 2021
Brita Ytre-Arne, Hallvard Moe
exaly