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Author : Abram Smythe Palmer
language : en
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Release Date : 1882
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Folk Etymology A Dictionary Of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted In Form Or Meaning By False Derivation Or Mistaken Analogy
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Author : Abram Smythe Palmer
language : en
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Release Date : 2023-12-24
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Folk Etymology As A Linguistic Phenomenon
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Author : Anastasia Castillo
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2010-09-15
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Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 3,0, University of Münster (Englisches Seminar), language: English, abstract: The English language belongs to the Indo-European group of languages. Modern English is regarded as the global lingua franca. The language is widely spoken all over the world and we encounter it in business, science, technology, advertising, travel, and some other domains. However, how could the language originally spoken by a few thousand Anglo-Saxons establish such dominance? The language evolved over centuries and how much the language has change since then is all too clear. Some of the words in present day English date back to Old English, while others come from many of the Indo-European languages. The arrival of other cultures to England had a significant impact on English linguistic history. The influence of Scandinavian, Latin and Romance languages can be clearly seen at all linguistic levels in English language. Historical linguistics is the study of language change. One of its main concerns is the study of the history of words. The discipline that analyses the origin, formation, and development of the word is defined as etymology. It is also a combination of word analysis and the study of literary text across language and time. However, it would not have developed into such an interesting discipline without the linguistic phenomenon of folk etymology. A foreign word that was hard to pronounce would be changed into something that sounded more familiar. Sometimes the change was made unconsciously due to mishearing or misunderstanding. This process frequently occurs when one language borrows a word from another. Since the Norman Conquest the English language was constantly adopting words due to external cultural influences. It is not entirely clear how many words entered English from other languages. But the meaning of some of them has also certainly changed. According to D. Crystal “most of the words in the language have changed their meaning over the past thousand years, their original meanings forgotten”.
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Author : Abram Smythe Palmer
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The Folk And Their Word Lore
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Author : Abram Smythe Palmer
language : en
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Release Date : 1971
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Author : Abram Smythe Palmer
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Publisher: Sagwan Press
Release Date : 2015-08-25
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Author : Abram Smythe Palmer
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Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2016-09-17
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Excerpt from Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions or Words Perverted in Form or Meaning, by False Derivation or Mistaken Analogy If there's any foreign language [read to them] which can't be explained, I've seen the costers annoyed at it - quite annoyed, says one intimate with their habits in Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor (vol. I. P. 27 He read to them a portion of a newspaper article in which occurred the words noblesse and qai n'est point noble n'est m'en. I can't tumble to that barrikin [understand that gibberish], said a young fellow, it's a jaw - breaker. Noblesse said another, Blessed if I know what he's up to, and here there was a regular laugh. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author : A. Smythe Palmer
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-08-03
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A dictionary of verbal corruptions and words perverted in form or meaning by false derivation or mistaken analogy.
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Author : Abram Smythe Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Nabu Press
Release Date : 2013-12
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Author : A. Smythe Palmer
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-12-30
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IT is extraordinary indeed that no book should have been written before on the precise lines of this useful and entertaining volume. Perhaps, however, the production of such a compendium of word-lore would have been impossible until the appearance of Murray and Bradley's still uncompleted New English Dictionary, and Wright's Dictionary of Dialect. In any case, Dr. Palmer deserves our gratitude. He has struck, as it seems to us, the right mean between the popular and the scientific. The Old English (why Anglo-Saxon?) forms are quoted with an accuracy which was conspicuous by its absence in earlier attempts to popularize the study of philology, while at the same time the writer has wisely refrained from attempting to trace the relationship between the earlier forms through the ramifications of phonetic law, and has avoided those references to the mysteries of 'Lautverschiebung,' 'Ablaut,' and 'Umlaut,' with which the scientific philologist is prone to damp the ardour of the intelligent but unlearned reader. The central object is well kept in view throughout—i.e. to show how the natural desire for uniformity (combined perhaps with the subtler intellectual pleasure of tracing or inventing analogies) leads to the defacement, often beyond recognition, of such words as are least comprehensible to the vulgar mind—notably of foreign words and names, to which a whole chapter is devoted. One criticism suggests itself, i.e. that in classifying his material the author might have done well to draw a sharper line of demarcation between the half or wholly unconscious blunders of the vulgar, and the elaborate and would-be ingenious guesses of literary men whose linguistic science is not on a par with their zeal for etymology. Chaucer, Fuller and Ruskin are alike sinners in this respect. It is a curious fact that in the realm of philology, and especially of etymology, fools — or shall we rather say, heaven-born enthusiasts? — are so prone to rush in where the cautious students of the German school fear to tread. Were it not so, however, the study of language would be a duller thing than it is, and English readers would have missed the genuine treat that now awaits them in the perusal of Dr. Smythe Palmer's little book. —The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 60 [1905]