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	Folk etymology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Folk etymology or popular etymology is a linguistic term for a category of false etymology which has grown up in popular lore, as opposed to one which arose in scholarly usage.
		Folk etymology is particularly important because it can result in the modification of a word or phrase by analogy with the erroneous etymology which is popularly believed to be true and supposed to be thus 'restored'.
		In such cases, 'folk etymology' is the trigger which causes the process of linguistic analogy by which a word or phrase changes because of a popularly-held etymology, or misunderstanding of the history of a word or phrase.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Folk_etymology (949 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Etymology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Etymology is the study of the origins of words.
		From Antiquity through the 17th century, from Pindar to Sir Thomas Browne, etymology has been a form of witty wordplay, in which the supposed origins of words were mythologized to satisfy contemporary requirements, much as myths were formed to explain archaic rituals that were no longer comprehensible.
		Degrading and insulting pseudo-etymologies were a standard weapon of Jerome's arsenal of sarcasm, and Isidore of Seville compiled a volume of etymologies, some quite far-fetched, to illuminate the triumph of religion.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Etymology (1081 words)

	Folk_etymology
		Folk etymology is particularly important because it can result in the modification of a word or phrase by analogy with the erroneous etymology which is popularly believed to be true.
		In this case, 'folk etymology' is the trigger which causes the process of linguistic analogy by which a word or phrase changes because of a popularly-held etymology, or misunderstanding of the history of a word or phrase.
		Here the term 'folk etymology' is also used (originally as a shorthand) to refer to the change itself.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/folk_etymology.html (446 words)

	Learn more about Etymology in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Some words have been derived from other languages, possibly in a changed form (the source words are etymons).
		The word etymology (the etymology of etymology) comes from the Greek étymos (true meaning of a word) and lògos (science).
		As a language, English is derived from the Anglo-Saxon, a dialect of West Germanic (as was Old Low German), although its current vocabulary includes words from many languages.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /e/et/etymology.html (597 words)

	Isidore of Seville
		The work takes its title from just one of its twenty constituent books, a highly fanciful account of the etymologies of words, more revealing as a folk etymology of his age.
		In recent years he has been proposed as the patron saint of the Internet.
		The Etymologiæ are available at The Latin Library\nHenry Wace, Dictionary of Christian Biography\nCatholic Encyclopedia, 1910: 'Isidore of Seville'\n*St.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/i/is/isidore_of_seville.html (541 words)

	Encyclopedia of Cajun Culture - ZYDECO
		Contrary to popular belief, it is not Cajun in origin; rather, zydeco is the music of south Louisiana’s Creoles of Color, who borrowed many of zydeco’s defining elements from Cajun music.
		(In turn, Cajun music borrowed many of its traits from Creole music.) The word zydeco (also rendered zarico, zodico, zordico, and zologo) derives from the French expression les haricots, meaning "beans." Folk etymology holds that the genre obtained this name from the common Creole expression "Les haricots sont pas salés" ("The beans aren’t salty").
		Without debunking this etymology, folklorist Barry Jean Ancelet has noted that this explanation has been generally accepted without much critical analysis.
	www.cajunculture.com /Other/zydeco.htm (388 words)

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