linguistic chauvenisms

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:32 AM -0500 2/6/02, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>Herb,
>
>You mean, of course, a case of folk linguistics which is not true.
>"Folk" and "false" are not synonyms (at least not for professionals).
>
>dInIs

Does that apply to folk etymology as well?  It certainly has a long
history of being used so as to imply (if not entail) falseness.  If
it turns out that someone discovers that "posh" really did originate
from "port out starboard home", hard as that may be to imagine, would
it still be a (correct) folk etymology?

larry

>
>>some degree, r-less.  Is there any support for this
>>claim, or is it another case of folk linguistics?
>>
>>Herb Stahlke