| 单词 | folk etymology |
| 例句 | For decades the answer to that question has been the Bigfoot of word origins, chased around wild speculative corners by amateur word freaks, with exasperated lexicographers and debunkers of folk etymologies in hot pursuit. ‘The Whole Nine Yards’: Seeking a Phrase’s Origin 2012-12-26T22:43:52Z This is one of those terms for which the internet offers various competing “folk etymologies”, which is the linguist’s polite term for nonsense. ‘Bear markets’: why stock markets are giving us paws for thought 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z It was only a matter of time before this pseudo-etymology, or folk etymology, became the main usage. News of an ‘Outrage’ Used to Mean Something Very, Very Different 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z M ‘miniscule’ Through a popular misconstrual of their parts, and by a process known as “folk etymology”, words can change form without much change of meaning. From alright to zap: an A-Z of horrible words 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z They’re not folk etymologies, he argues, “because this is the usage of one person rather than an entire speech community” – though very common ones could certainly become part of the language. That eggcorn moment 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z At Queensferry, by a folk etymology, one of the lads wears a coat stuck over with burrs. Modern Mythology There is a legend that the word was originally acronymic, standing for "Card Hole Aggregate Debris", but this has all the earmarks of a bogus folk etymology. :chad box: /n./ The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 It is, in effect, a folk etymology of the name of the great capital of the Eastern Empire. Old French Romances |
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